Pest management plant and animal
Find out lots of facts about our local pests and how you can help manage them.
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- Invasive asparagus plants
Unlike their popular relative the edible asparagus, these asparagus species are not ones you want to grow in your garden!
- Biosecurity action at home
The plan prioritises plants listed as restricted and locally significant invasive plants for management.
- Blue thunbergia
Blue thunbergia however, is one of the highest priority invasive plants with the management response being eradication.
- Broad-leaved paspalum
Plants grow in open pasture, along roadside verges, in bush margins and in deeply shaded areas in forests.
- Trapping cane toad tadpoles
Scientists discovered that cane toad eggs release an attractant, which draws in other cane toad tadpoles who predate on the eggs.
- Dutchman's pipe
The vine is now an invader of rainforests, riparian areas, roadsides, disturbed areas, bushlands and even plantation crop areas.
- Elephant ears
This weed reproduces by seed which is often dispersed by fruit eating birds and floods.
- Spotlight on urban wildlife: Foxes
Spotlight on urban wildlife - European red fox.
- European red fox and invasive basket asparagus
Is the European red fox a vector of the invasive basket asparagus in eastern Australia?
- European red fox diet
The broad dietary niche of the red fox in a hybrid coastal ecosystem in south-eastern Queensland.
- Honey locust tree
There are not many plants found on the Sunshine Coast that’s spikes can compare to those of the honey locust tree.
- Invasive plant alert for Witta and Kenilworth bluff
There are 2 invasive pest plants that have been spotted on the Sunshine Coast and we’re working to eradicate them.
- Lantana
Is it a noxious weed or great habitat?
- Invasive ground covers
Find out how to care for your bushland by managing Singapore daisy and other invasive groundcovers.
- Managing water weeds
Before you get started with weed management make sure you get to know the difference between beneficial native plants and invasive ones.
- Melastoma
Are you planting a native melastoma or an invasive weed?
- Mexican bean tree
The Mexican bean tree is a fast growing tree, it has the potential to outcompete native plants and pose a threat to riparian and rainforest ecosystems.
- Mexican bean tree seedlings found near Buderim
7 seedlings found in revegetation area at land for wildlife Mons property.
- Looking for Mexican bean tree seedlings
Step through the forest looking for Mexican bean tree seedlings that may have spread from the original 2 trees found in the Buderim area.
- Rubber vine found on the Sunshine Coast
Rubber vine is a seriously invasive pest plant which has not yet become established on the Sunshine Coast.
- Telegraph weed
Is this a new dunal weed?
- Weed hibiscus
The pink hibiscus plant has a clump of large burrs on it, rough around the edges, and smallish flowers.
- Weedy grasses on the Sunshine Coast
There are several species of invasive grasses that are on the high priority list for management under the Sunshine Coast local government area biosecurity plan 2017.