Introducing the Mallee Looper

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What is the Mallee Looper?
What is the Mallee Looper?

The Mallee Looper caterpillars are eating their way through thousands of hectares of Mallee Eucalypts. Learn about Loopers and what you can do.

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It takes a lot to kill a Mallee tree
It takes a lot to kill a Mallee tree

It takes a lot to kill a Mallee tree. Several years in fact. But that is just what the Mallee Looper caterpillar is doing.

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DIY moth trapping (no kill!)
DIY moth trapping (no kill!)

Learn about moth sheets and how to build your own no-kill moth trap here!

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What you can do
What you can do

You can help us unravel the causes and effects of the Mallee Looper outbreak by assisting with monitoring, hosting a moth trap (November), or looking out for caterpillars and damage (January onwards).

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iNaturalist - Looking for Mallee Loopers
iNaturalist - Looking for Mallee Loopers

Please contribute observations of Mallee Looper caterpillars or moths to this iNat project https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/projects/looking-for-mallee-loopers

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Factsheets

Research updates

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Can “no-kill” moth trapping be used for research?
Can “no-kill” moth trapping be used for research?

Moth trapping for research sometimes involves killing everything in the trap. Here’s how I successfully avoided that approach.

370 moths in a bucket
370 moths in a bucket

For the first time, we have an understanding of the abundance of Mallee Looper moths in outbreak sites in the Victorian Mallee. What a trapping season it was!

The moths are flying!
The moths are flying!

The Mallee Looper moths have emerged from their underground pupae. Moth trapping is in full swing!

The Mallee Looper - project overview
The Mallee Looper - project overview

Read on for an overview of our research project exploring the outbreak of Mallee Looper caterpillars in the Victorian Mallee.

This project of the Regional Drought Resilience Planning program is jointly funded through the Australian Government’s Future Drought Fund, the Victoria Government and the Natural Resources Conservation Trust. Research is led by Wildlife Unlimited, in partnership with Mallee Conservation.