Wednesday,
22 January 2025
Bye-bye wasps: community effort stings summer pests

A COMMUNITY-WIDE campaign to trap European wasp queens has reduced wasp numbers across the shire by 800,000 or more this summer.

Following this year’s success, council now hopes to expand the project in the future.

European wasps are a pest in Australia.

Their opportunistic and competitive diet can have major negative impacts on native species, honey production, fruit and pollination.

They also ...

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