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

We’ve been rearing Mallee Looper caterpillars in the office.

After caterpillars hatch from the egg they spend about a month growing and eating. From about 20 days old they are in the “very hungry” stage where most defoliation of trees occurs.

We also witnessed the alien-stage as the caterpilla becomes a pupa.