Plant Pests and Ways to Control Them
03 Jul
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 3rd July 2026
As with the Wollongong Botanic Garden’s Kawasaki Bridge, hubby’s wonderful vegie beds too are succumbing to our climate — and these were constructed from hardwood and treated pine!
(And if you reeled in horror at t..
02 Jul
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 2nd July 2026
Did you know that rats ringbark trees?
I did not until very recently, when discovering this young fig late one evening, bark stripped and even the top of the trunk, which had growing leaves, removed:
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01 Jul
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 1st July 2026
Continuing with the theme on how these fruit protection bags and sleeves with their handy drawstrings make them more versatile than ‘just’ protecting fruit, I also find them useful for protecting seeds.
This is the..
12 Jun
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 12th June 2026
This complements the Update: An Effective, Homemade Rodenticide post.
Please also read about Second-generation Anticoagulant Rodenticides (SGARs) and their threats to wildlife and pets here.
The problem with the ..
02 Apr
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Title image above is copyright © Kristi Ellinopoullos
First published 2nd April 2026
By far the best all-round pest control method is to simply exclude them. This is of course often easier said than done, but for many many set-ups exclusion netting is the most efficient and practical way to ensure..
18 Mar
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Title image above is copyright © Birdlife Australia
First published 18th March 2026
Have you ever heard or seen tawny frogmouths, boobooks, or barking owls at night (we do!)? This post is for them, with much thanks to NP for sending me this following the Update: An Effective, Homemade Rodenticide ..
04 Mar
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Title image above of the warfarin molecule is attributed to Calvero, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
(This article is loosely based on one originally published 15th March 2019 here on an animal breeding blog I wrote from 2017-2019. Every single image in that blog, including the maths ones, was..
27 Feb
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
First published 20th November 2021
Updated on 27th February 2026 and again on 18th March 2026
When you have fruiting trees, or grow other food, or have chickens, or feed wild birds, you are inevitably going to attract rats and mice.
Like home..
03 Nov
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
First published 3rd November 2021
Introduction
I do enjoy my citrus collection, and they are all healthy-looking and fertilised and watered regularly. But at the same time I’m sadly a very out-of-sight out-of-mind kind of person, and the tree..
02 Nov
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Title image above is copyright © Optimate Group Pty Ltd
First published 2nd November 2021
Updated 29th October 2025
I’d never be without this classic remedy for arthropod* pests. Simple and dirt-cheap to make, lasts forever, and with the added bonus that arthropods* can never develop resistance to..
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