Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

Just monitor it AM. You will soon know if they are bad by the fact that your non-cherry toms, chillis, capsicums & zuchinni will cop it. I've been using a couple of organically certified products to help reduce the impact of fruit fly here.

AAAAGGHHH!......SPLAT

time for sticky traps !

Has anyone ever seen this before? A stacks on of caterpillars. they sort of have pointy yellow heads and were munching eucalyptus tree. If they are okay I will put them back, but if they are an introduced pest I will burn their asses.

i remember seeing catterpillars in big "bunches" like that on a eucalypt tree in primary school, we called them spitfires, which is what i thought they might be, except googling them, i don't think they are....(they look like the ones we called spitfires though)

http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larvae/faqs/spit.html

No idea what they are - look a lot like food for silvers

Daniel got it right
http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~don/larva ... salis.html

They're sawfly larvae.
I think they eat eucalypt and they ooze smelly stuff... might be a bit strong for silvers.
I remember them as a kid too, but haven't seen them for years.

so, kill em or put them back?

Yeah... Spitfires.... we also believed they spitted acid... ala aliens.

I say kill em Monya

http://www.insectguide.net/sawflies.html

US too! every eycalypt tree in my primary school had them around in spring. HUGE bunches of them.

tria them on the fish mon, lots of KG of free food there................................

Interesting, seems they are attracted to eucalytus and children. Primary School was the only place I EVER saw them

same. maybe children were the only ones who were afraid to kill them lest they spat acid or fire onto them lol

Okay - another addition... ANTS!
These red ants ate their way through several of my air lines this week
The air line is made of silicon... not too sure what they would do with it - never hade this happen before