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

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.

DIY moth trapping (no kill!)

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

Research updates. Coming soon …

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Mallee Looper Alert

Just when we thought the Mallee trees had escaped being eaten by very hungry Mallee Looper caterpillars …

Word has come from South Australian Looper-watching volunteers, that during mid-March there was a massive, out-of-season emergence of moths. Does this mean late damage to our Mallee trees?