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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Where are the Mallee Looper caterpillars?

From recent moth trapping, egg laying and caterpillar rearing we were expecting high numbers of hungry Mallee Looper caterpillars eating the leaves from Mallee Eucalypt trees in January. This did not happen. Hooray!