Spring has sprung and you’re probably getting your plants in, ready to attract native bees, bugs and butterflies. By encouraging these invertebrates you’re encouraging other native animals, those a little higher up the food chain, to also visit.  

Tawny Frogmouths

Is it a bird? Is it a stick? While you might not have tawnies roosting in your yard (or you might, look closely!) it’s possible that while you’re sleeping they are dropping by. Active at night, Tawnies love to feast on cockroaches, moths, crickets and even frogs, small birds and reptiles.

Eastern blue-tongue lizard

Gardens with rocks and logs are the perfect location for a blue tongue lizard to call home. This gives them lots of shelter overnight and a place to stay safe from predators but also a great spot for sun basking. And with shelter and native plants come snails, beetles and insects which the blue tongues love to feast on. They also love to eat native flowers and berries but don’t worry, they’ve earned their keep getting rid of your other garden pests.

Bandicoots

If you’ve heard what sounds like a dog toy being squeaked at night and found small, conical holes in your garden the next day, you’ve been visited by bandicoots (especially true if you don’t have a dog!) They eat everything from earthworms and beetle larvae to roots.

And you know who loves to hunt for bandicoots? Owls and quolls and up and up the food chain we go!