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Comment on 2011 Sustainable Living Festival and Botanica Spring Festival by Enviro Events | Bellingen Environment Centre

Enviro Events | Bellingen Environment Centre — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 09:04:51 +0000

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Comment on 2011 Sustainable Living Festival and Botanica Spring Festival by Enviro Events | Bellingen Environment Centre

Enviro Events | Bellingen Environment Centre — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:57:51 +0000

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Comment on North Sapphire Beach Park by Community Close-up | Coffs Outlook

Community Close-up | Coffs Outlook — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:08:50 +0000

[...] is an excellent – if somewhat cramped and ‘overly busy by design’ – start and so is the North Sapphire Beach park, but are we going to continue with daggy eucalypts and gravel paths everywhere [...]

Comment on Bellinger Kalang EcoHealth Report Card Launched! by Bellinger Kalang EcoHealth Report Card Launched! | Our Living Coast | Today Headlines

Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:35:26 +0000

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Comment on Stinkbugs! by Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Sat, 21 May 2011 09:06:07 +0000

Someone suggested to me to vacuum the little blighters off the tree! Or knock them off into a plastic bag and throw it in the bin! I sprayed mine with a crawling insect pump spray – that got ‘em! Good luck!

Comment on Stinkbugs! by Pia

Pia — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:21:13 +0000

Stinkbugs can completely wipe out your entire crop even on mature trees. It has happened to us on 20 year old healthy trees. They build up their populations and get more from year to year. I have seen them hang out at the bottom of the tree trunk on hot days. Their squirt can be very painful in the eyes – wear protective gear. One person reported some success with stinkbugs that were converted into a spray and sprayed back over the trees – not a pleasant thing to do and the result could be doubtful.
Stinkbugs are the one problem that have sent me to the chemical solution after trying manual control over several years. You can be very specific with your spray and hit the individual bugs. Spraying the foliage all over is not successful anyway as the poison is a contact poison.

Comment on Stinkbugs! by Steve

Steve — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 03:12:02 +0000

I second the wearing of glasses. Have heard several people say they’ve been squirted by stinkbugs and have ended up with blisters that scab up on their skin, wouldn’t be good in your eye :-)

Comment on Stinkbugs! by Nic

Nic — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:36:13 +0000

I have the same issue on my citrus. I observe that they only seem to cause a problem (dead new shoots) on my less vigorous trees. The older trees seem to not be phase by them, though at a personal level, they are unpleasant to have around due to their smell everytime you brush the tree.

To get rid of them you can just put gloves on (I used washing up gloves) and pull them of and drop them in a bucket of water. Other websites I have looked at say to wear long sleeves and goggles when removing them as the (stinky) fluid they squirt can be very irritating, especially to eyes.

I have also heard that on really hot days, they congregate at the bottom of the tree trunk where they are easy to grab, though I have not yet observed this.

Pulling them off by hand is not an overly nice job, but better than spraying chemicals around and killing or the other good bugs too. You soon get over their ickyness too.

Comment on Natives for a south facing garden by Steve

Steve — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:32:07 +0000

Here’s a list of native understorey plants of varying sizes that go well in our area supplied by Pete Rundle from Bellingen Urban Landcare:

Guioa: Guioa semiglauca

Elderberry Panax: Polyscias sambucifolia

Narrow-leaved Palm Lily: Cordyline stricta

Rose Walnut: Endiandra discolor

Blueberry Ash: Elaeocarpus reticulatus

Banana Bush: Tabernaemontana pandacaqui

Creek Sandpaper Fig: Ficus coronata

Scentless Rosewood: Synoum glandulosum

Blue tongue: Melastoma affine

Yellow Carabeen: Sloanea woolsii

Five-leaf Water Vine: Cissus hypoglauca

False Sarsparilla (Happy Wanderer): Hardenbergia violacea

Snake Vine: Stephania japonica

Kreysigia: Tripladenia cunninghamii

Fringed Lily: Thysonotus tuberosus

Jackwood: Cryptocarya glaucens

Purple Flag: Patersonia longifolia

Black Wattle: Callicoma serratifolia

Coffee Bush: Breynia oblongifolia

Guinea Flower: Hibbertia aspera

Guinea Flower: Hibbertia scandens

Rough Treefern: Cyathea australis

Rose Leafed Marara: Ackama paniculata

Blue Commelina: Commelina cyanea

Native Lobelia: Lobelia dentata

Gristle Fern: Blechnum cartilagineum

Walking Stick Palm: Linospandix monostachya

Swamp Lily: Crinum pendunculatum

Comment on Sustainable Cities by Helmut Schiretz

Helmut Schiretz — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 21:05:47 +0000

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