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.   […]

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 […]

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 […]