![Close up of a Heather beetle on top of a plant.](http://static.sciencelearn.org.nz/images/images/000/003/758/full/ART_Kiwi_Forever-a_ConservationCampr_HeatherBeetle.jpeg?1674171848)
Heather beetles were imported from the UK and introduced in Tongariro National Park in 1996 to help control heather, a pest plant that had been brought to New Zealand in 1912.
Heather beetles were imported from the UK and introduced in Tongariro National Park in 1996 to help control heather, a pest plant that had been brought to New Zealand in 1912.