Learn about the Mallee Looper

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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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Rearing caterpillars

Rearing Mallee Looper caterpillars in the office was a lot of fun. We also learnt a lot about how the caterpillar grows and becomes a pupa, including the alien stage.