Our bugs and beetles are not fond of cold nights and whilst they remained quiet over the last couple of months, it gave Nina and Yvonne time to upgrade the biocontrol facility. Our small shade house is fully secure with the intention of keeping roaming jewel beetles off their pending food plants. We’re sure the […]
Cooloola BioBlitz – 20th – 22nd March 2020
Come for a day or the whole weekend! Fraser Island Defenders and Cooloola Coastcare are holding another BioBlitz from 20th March 2020 to 22nd March 2020. The BioBlitz is a 48 hour period of biological surveying in an attempt to expand the records of all the plant and animal species within the Cooloola Coast. Scientists, […]
Bio-Control News: Prickly Pear
Prickly pear (Opuntia stricta) was imported into Australia in the late 1800’s and quickly became a pest weed spreading to cover four million hectares by 1900. The pear was introduced to establish a colony of mealy bugs where red dye would be extracted to colour fabric. The fruit yielded high vitamin C and the cactus […]
