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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Egg laying in the Mallee Looper moth

How many eggs does a Mallee Looper moth lay? (Spoiler: a lot) Moths lay their eggs high in trees. From this exposed location the tiny caterpillars “balloon” away from the egg mass on silken threads.