by Gympie District Landcare | Nov 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Jennifer Nichols Published by ABC Rural, 19/09/2021 Landholders could unwittingly be killing some of the most valuable members of their herd by failing to minimise the impact of drenching farm animals for parasites. Researchers are urging people to...
by Gympie District Landcare | Apr 1, 2021 | Bio-Control, Invasive Species
We had an exciting day recently where we headed out to monitor our Biocontrol insects around the Gympie Region. Once again, all stages of the insects life cycles were located in most of our release sites, which is expected due to the change in season. Our leaf tying...
by Gympie District Landcare | Mar 5, 2021 | Bio-Control, Invasive Species
It has been an exciting week for the biocontrol crew, where we released our first five boxes of cut cats claw creeper vine loaded with Leaf tying moth caterpillars. It has taken 3 ½ years to reach this stage, producing well over 3000 moths with only having two...
by Gympie District Landcare | Feb 9, 2021 | Bio-Control, Invasive Species
After a year and a half of waiting for the rain to fall to improve conditions for release of the Jewel beetles, we finally got to visit the South Burnett Region and catch up with Ian Crosthwaite who was a long-time committee member of the Kingaroy Landcare Group....
by Gympie District Landcare | Nov 5, 2020 | Bio-Control, Invasive Species
I cannot believe that it was 5 years ago since I began my career in Bio-control. It has been a huge learning curve over the years, but it has also been a lot of fun along the way. Our Jewel beetles are back in the swing of things now that the weather has warmed, and...
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