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 caterpillars transferred onto fresh cats claw creeper […]
Bio Control News: March 2021
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 caterpillars to start this new project. […]
Bio Control News: February 2021
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. During our visit, Ian showed us around […]
