Pests & Management — Beneficial Wildlife

Green jumping spider on a leaf, one of the garden's harmless good guys

Bugs you can safely ignore (or even thank)

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarNot every bug in your raised bed is out to get your...

Australian native bees: your best (and cutest) pollinators

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarYou'll know the blue-banded bee by its shimmering blue stripes and fast,...

Meat ant (Iridomyrmex purpureus), a common Australian garden ant

Ants: mostly fine — but watch who they're farming

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarAnts march through every garden, and on their own they're not much...

Green jumping spider (Mopsus mormon), a harmless Australian garden hunter

Spiders: the pest patrol you didn't hire

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarA dew-strung web across the bed at dawn, or a tiny jumping...

Black field cricket (Teleogryllus commodus), common in Australian gardens

Crickets: noisy neighbours, minor nibblers

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarThe chirp of a cricket on a warm night is the soundtrack...

Springtail (Folsomia candida) in damp soil, a harmless decomposer

Springtails: tiny, everywhere, and totally harmless

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarLook closely at damp potting mix or a compost heap and you...

Millipedes: harmless recyclers (mostly)

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarSlow, many-legged, and quick to curl into a neat spiral when you...

Slaters: friend or foe in the veggie patch?

← Back to the Garden Trouble CalendarThose little grey armoured bugs that curl up (or scuttle for cover)...

Gould's wattled bat, an Australian microbat, alert on a branch at night

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...

Black ground beetle under a log, a night-hunting Australian garden predator

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...

Australian garden mantis (Orthodera ministralis)

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...

Hoverfly feeding on Geraldton wax flowers

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,...

Are ladybirds good for your veggie garden?

Why ladybirds are one of the best natural pest controllers, and how to attract more to your garden.

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