Moth Plant Competition

 🌎🌱 Registrations are open for the annual moth plant competition. Help eradicate this nasty weed and win cash prizes. Find out more here: https://pfhw.org.nz/our-schools/moth-plant-competition/

Today Year Four entered the moth plant competition.

We went around the school with our gloves on finding and pulling moth plant seedlings. We found some pods too.

Room 4:

13 pods

5 pods

46 seedlings with roots

10 seedlings with roots

We’ll photograph our finds and send them in for our chance to win spot

Prizes 

49 seedlings with roots

Room 4 got 105 seedlings with roots and 18 pods.

Room 6 found 61 seedlings with roots.

So far that is 166 seedlings with roots and 13 pods from our school.

Dispose of plants and pods in landfill. Not compost.

Room 5 got 21 seedlings with roots and 13 pods.

Altogether Year 4 removed 26 pods and 187 seedlings with roots from our school grounds.  Well done Year Four!

6/5/26 Room 1 reported that there was moth plant growing in the bush behind their classroom so today, the Eco Group got on the case and helped to clear it out in the last week of the Moth Plant Competition.  We worked hard with a long hook, gloves and scissors.  This is what we collected:

73 seedlings with roots

32 pods - plants uprooted

Unfortunately there were some more pods but they were too high, so we just cut the vine and poisoned it.

Grand total for school eradication- seedlings with roots - 260 & pods - 45

Have you checked your garden for moth plant?