About the Authors
- Craig B. Phillips
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: craig.phillips@agresearch.co.nz
Affiliations Biocontrol and Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Lincoln, New Zealand, Better Border Biosecurity research collaboration, www.b3nz.org, Aotearoa, New Zealand
- Kerry Brown
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand
- Chris Green
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand
- Richard Toft
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Entecol Ltd, Nelson, New Zealand
- Graham Walker
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Better Border Biosecurity research collaboration, www.b3nz.org, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Plant & Food Research, Auckland, New Zealand
- Keith Broome
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Conservation, Wellington, New Zealand
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. RT is a the Managing Director of a commercial company EntEcol Ltd (www.entecol.co.nz) which provides technical entomological services to New Zealand clients. In the eradication program, EntEcol Ltd was contracted by DOC for RT to provide services including contributing to the TAG, preparing documents, identifying specimens, helping to develop the visual lure, and evaluating P. brassicae parasitism rates. EntEcol Ltd provided support in the form of a salary for author RT, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Author RT’s commercial affiliation to EntEcol Ltd does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.