People are being encouraged to keep an eye out for hitchhiking exotic pests now that the country heads into a new alert level and many more goods are moving again.

We’re asking everyone to look out for anything unusual they might notice in parcels and packages so that we find unwanted pests early. They could still be hiding out in new-to-New Zealand parcels or non-essential items that have been in containers or storage while we were at COVID-19 Alert Level 4.