Pests & Management

Microbats: the unsung heroes of the night shift

Australia's tiny microbats are the unsung heroes of the night shift. Smaller than your thumb and utterly harmless,...

Insect-eating birds: free pest control on the wing

Not every bird is after your fruit. Little insect-eaters — willie wagtails, fairy-wrens, robins and pardalotes — spend...

Lizards: the garden's built-in snail patrol

Skinks and blue-tongue lizards are the garden's snail patrol. That blue-tongue basking on your path is quietly working...

Frogs: your garden's night-shift pest patrol

A frog in the garden is a sign you've got it right. These little hunters work the night...

Ground beetles: the garden's night shift

Ground beetles are the night shift. These fast, shiny beetles shelter under mulch and logs by day and...

Predatory mites: fighting mites with mites

It takes a mite to beat a mite. Predatory mites are the natural enemy of the two-spotted (spider)...

Parasitic wasps: tiny, harmless, and lethal to pests

Don't let the name worry you — parasitic wasps are tiny, stingless and completely harmless to you, but...

Praying mantis: the garden's patient hunter

The praying mantis is the garden's patient ambush hunter. It sits dead still, forelegs folded as if praying,...

Bees and pollinators: the workforce behind your harvest

Bees are the quiet workforce behind a good harvest. Honey bees and Australia's native bees — like the...

Hoverflies: pollinators and aphid-eaters in one

Hoverflies (also called flower flies) earn their keep twice over — the adults pollinate your crops, and their...

Lacewings: the garden's hardest-working predator

Green lacewings are one of the hardest-working predators you can have. The delicate, lacy-winged adults are pretty enough,...

Earwigs: friend or foe in the veggie patch?

Earwigs are a mixed bag. Those rear pincers look fierce but are harmless to you — and earwigs...

Cutworms: how to spot and manage them

Cutworms are the fat, soft caterpillars of certain moths. They hide in the soil by day and come...

Grasshoppers and locusts: how to spot and manage them

Grasshoppers — including big ones like the Australian giant grasshopper — chew ragged holes in leaves, and in...

Fungus gnats: how to spot and manage them

Fungus gnats are tiny dark flies that hover around seedlings and pot plants. The adults are mostly just...

The 28-spotted ladybird: the one ladybird that's a pest

Not every ladybird is your friend. The 28-spotted ladybird is the exception — unlike the helpful kinds that...

Stink bugs (bronze orange & harlequin): how to spot and manage them

Shield-shaped stink bugs, like the bronze orange bug on citrus and the colourful harlequin bug, suck sap from...

Scale insects: how to spot and manage them

Scale are sap-suckers that look like little bumps or shells stuck to stems and leaves — many people...

Mealybugs: how to spot and manage them

Mealybugs are small, soft, sap-sucking insects wrapped in a white, cottony wax. They cluster in leaf joints and...

Two-spotted mites and webbing on a bean leaf

Two-spotted mite (spider mite): how to spot and manage it

Two-spotted mite — also called red spider mite — is a tiny sap-sucker, barely visible to the eye,...

Queensland fruit fly: how to spot and manage it

Queensland fruit fly (Qfly) is one of the most serious pests for backyard fruit and fruiting veg across...

Damping-off: why seedlings collapse, and how to prevent it

What it is: Damping-off is a soil fungus that rots seeds and young seedlings right at the base,...

A tomato plant wilting from fusarium wilt

Fusarium and verticillium wilt: how to spot and beat them

What it is: Fusarium and verticillium wilt are soil-borne fungi that block a plant's water pipes from the...

Mosaic virus: how to spot it and stop it spreading

What it is: Mosaic virus is a group of plant viruses (cucumber mosaic virus is the common one)...

Sooty mould: what it really means and how to fix it

What it is: Sooty mould is a black, soot-like coating on leaves — but here's the key: it's...

Leaf spot (septoria): how to spot and manage it

What it is: Leaf spot is a fungal disease that peppers leaves with lots of small, round spots....

Rust: how to spot and manage it

What it is: Rust is a fungal disease that shows up as orange-brown powdery pustules on leaves. There...

Early blight target-spot lesions on a leaf

Early blight: how to spot and manage it

What it is: Early blight is a fungal disease (Alternaria) that makes distinctive target-shaped spots on leaves. It's...

Blossom-end rot: why it happens and how to stop it

What it is: Blossom-end rot isn't a pest or a disease at all — it's a disorder caused...

Downy mildew: how to spot, prevent and manage it

What it is: Downy mildew is a fungal-like disease that, unlike powdery mildew, works on the underside of...

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