Natrasoap Mite & Insect Spray
One of the most difficult garden pests to identify would have to be the two-spotted mites because they are so tiny they are almost impossible to see without a magnifying glass. There are a few signs that you can look out for though. Usually the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Leaf and Stick Insects or Phasmids
This summer in search and discover we have had more inquiries than usual about phasmids. People have found them in the laundry, clinging to windows, and drowned in swimming pools. Phasmids are insects that eat leaves and resemble leaves or ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
University of Queensland Insect Collection - The School ...
Home » BIOL & the Community » University of Queensland Insect Collection The UQIC is a research collection first started in the 1920's by F.A. Perkins, the first lecturer in entomology at the University of Queensland. The collection now [... more]
sols.uq.edu.au |
Pests - Psyllids and lerps
Psyllids are tiny sap-sucking winged insects that feed on many native trees and shrubs, especially eucalypts. Some build scale-like shelters or lerps to protect them while they feed. Others cause the plant to make gall-like structures for them. ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
Flying insects bites and stings
There are many biting insects around, especially in summer. While you can do some things to help avoid being bitten, bites often happen and you need to be prepared. Most insect bites and stings are not poisonous, but the bites of some flying ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Treatment of insect bites and stings
In summer weather especially there are many biting insects around. There are some things you can do to help avoid your children being bitten but in spite of this, bites often happen and you need to be prepared. Most insect bites and stings are ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Controlling Scale Insects
Judy often gets asked about sooty mould fungus on plants. It is this horrible black coating that spoils the leaves and makes it much harder for them to function properly. You can scrape it off but unless you get rid of the insect that is causing ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Why most animals are insects
Insects comprise 75% of all animal species that scientists have named and described, and most of these insects have wings. What is the importance of the co-evolution of insects and plants? ARTHROPOD - the name for animals with jointed legs and an ... [... more]
Australian Museum |
Australian Spider and Insect Bites
Of all the thousands of Australian spiders, arthropods and insects, only three have bites which alone are capable of causing death - the funnel-web spider (and related atrax species), the red back spider and the paralysis tick. In most other ... [... more]
usyd.edu.au |
HortNews - Insects May Bring Down Aggressive Noxious Vine
Insects may soon be used to see off old man's beard, one of New Zealand's worst weeds. WELLINGTON 16/4/2002 - Insects may soon be used to see off old man's beard, one of New Zealand's worst weeds. An aggressive climbing vine, old man's beard ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Keeping Insects as Pets
Do you have an old terrarium lying around? Do you have a child whose pockets are full of slaters and ladybirds? Maybe it's time to put them together and get into some serious insect collecting. Insects are low-maintenance pets, cheap, quiet, and ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Insects as Pets
None. Stick insects go through 5 'instars' or moults whilst growing. Totally independent and somewhat reclusive. Insects won't bond with humans. Stick insect males are more flighty than females. Males are most active during breeding times. ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
