Get your orders in now for February! Our Bio-Control facility are offering a 75% subsidy to Gympie landholders for insects to control Cat’s Claw Creeper and Madeira Vine! Madeira Vine and Cat’s Claw Creeper are an invasive species and have become an environmental weed smothering understory vegetation and killing mature trees. Physical and chemical control […]
News from Bio-Control
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 […]
Bio-Control – Aphids Competing for Jewel Beetle Food
Cats Claw Creeper vine is grown on site for our Jewel Beetles. Occasionally Aphids move into our growing shade house sucking the sap from the vine, secreting deposits of honeydew. Honeydew often causes sooty mould which need to be removed from the leaves before introducing the Jewel beetles. In good conditions, aphids can reproduce rapidly […]
