school in your school yard ANIMAL ATTRACTING PLANTS TOOL KIT Plants that attract REFERENCES INSECT EATING BIRDS

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1 in your yard Plants that insect eating birds NOTES Prickly Pine Bursaria tenuifolia 2-8m of small black beetles, converge on flowering plants River Oak Casuarina 10 x 5m wide brown cones orange beetles will defoliate trees, small birds eat the beetles Pendas Xanthostemon 2-10m gold, red s a range of insects and birds Paperbark, Bottlebrush Melaleuca sp. 1-25m -red nectar available in Grevillea Grevillea sp. 1-25m to red nectar available in Tea Trees Leptospermum sp m -pink usually heavy flowering and nectar available Palms Archontophoenix alexandrae to 35m large red fruit prolific flowering; rich nectar source s most larger fruit eaters including fig birds, Cassowary, parrots Plants that INSECT EATING BIRDS Bursaria tenuifolia Callistemon species Grevillea species Melaleuca species Xanthostemon chrysanthus wildcare.org.au/ Documents/Growing_plants_ to wildlife_to_your_ garden.pdf sgaptownsville. org.au/ VIEW OTHER 1

2 in your yard Plants that fruit eating birds Lillypillies Syzygium sp. shrub to tall tree usually Tuckaroo Tree Cupaniopsis anacardioides Big Leaf Macaranga sp. 5-10m x 5-7m wide Grevillea Grevillea sp. from ground cover to tree Tea Tree, Paperbark Melaleuca CHARACTER- ISTICS produce large edible fruit 5-7m x 4m wide small shade tree; large amounts of yellow fruit in chains from shrub to tall tree Figs Ficus sp. small to very large tree Damson Terminalia muelleri smaller shade tree She-oaks Casuarina sp. upright tree, needle leaves inconspicuous ; male and female separate trees from to red, orange, gold inside fruit cones, brown pioneer shade tree; female produces of black fruit covered seed usually fast growing, large nectar filled parrots will eat the seed capsules all figs produce large amounts of fruit and seed; trees usually support large amounts of insects of purple fruit very small seed inside cones, favorite food for Black cockatoos and sulphur crested cockatoos Plants that FRUIT EATING BIRDS Acmena hemilampra Chionanthus ramiflora Cupaniopsis anacardioides Diospyros geminate Euroschinus falcate Ficus species Livistona decora Livistona drudei Pittosporum ferrugineum Pleiogynium timorense Syzygium species Terminalia catappa Terminalia muelleri VIEW OTHER 2

3 in your yard Plants that fruit eating birds Palms Native Mulberry Archontophoenix alexandrae Pipturus argentea to 35m large spreading shrub, 3 x 5m large red fruit Pink Euodia Melicope sp. 5-30m pink along branches Blue Tongue Melastoma sp. shrub 4m purple tibichinia Tuckaroo Cupaniopsis anacardioides tree to 6m small inconspicuous greenyellow CHARACTER- ISTICS s most larger fruit eaters including fig birds, cassowary and parrots female produces of small clear fruit small black fruit; single seed; s fig birds and lorikeets small gum nut filled with seed and fruit of black seed encased in edible redorange aril Plants that FRUIT EATING BIRDS Acmena hemilampra Chionanthus ramiflora Cupaniopsis anacardioides Diospyros geminate Euroschinus falcate Ficus species Livistona decora Livistona drudei Pittosporum ferrugineum Pleiogynium timorense Syzygium species Terminalia catappa Terminalia muelleri VIEW OTHER 3

4 in your yard t Plants tha Plants that honey eating birds SCIENTIFIC NAME HEIGHT / WIDTH FLOWER CHARACTERISTICS Grevillea Grevillea sp. from ground cover to tree from to red, orange, gold usually fast growing large nectar-filled Tea-tree, Paperbark, Bottlebrush Melaleuca sp. from shrub to tall tree -red bottle brush type flower Blackbean Castanospermum australe 20m red orange tall long-lived tree, on branches, large seed Banksia sp m Banksia large candlelike attraectrs AT HONEYE s on specie ith large Callistem rly those w pa s - rticula ie ec sp a Greville ndiflorus emon gra Lophost s ca specie ri) Melaleu lla muelle yn Evodie (s ra b ru e p o ic el M santhus emon chry Xanthost Deplanchea Golden Bouquet Tree tetraphylla 5-15m large yellow Gum Trees 5-25m usually excellent source flower of nectar for prolifically, insects and birds to red, orange trumpet shaped purple s honey eaters red nectar filled loved by parrots shade tree Native Fuchsias Parrot Tree Eucalyptus sp. Graptophyllum sp. Schotia brachypetala shrub 4m tree to 8m excellent garden specimen, small shade tree wildcare.org. plants_to wildlife_ VIEW OTHER 4

5 in your yard Plants that honey eating birds SCIENTIFIC NAME HEIGHT / WIDTH FLOWER CHARACTERISTICS Golden Beard Grass Chrysopogon fallax cm purplebrown perennial grass Cockatoo Grass Alloteropsis semialata 250mm-1m brown seed perennial clumping grass Nine Awn Grass Enneapogon robustissimus cm small clumping wiry grass Clustered Love Grass Eragrostis elongata 20-90cm / brown annual grass Giant Spear Grass Heteropogon triticeus 50-70cm when not flowering; 2m+ perennial grass Plume Sorghum Sarga plumosum 1-3m tall dark redbrown perennial grass Pigeon Grass Setaria surgens 20-60cm purple small annual grass Wattles Acacia sp. 1-15m to yellow of small hard seed Plants seed e that ating b irds Casu arina c unning Pleio hamia gynium na timore Term nse inalia m acroca rpa wildcare.org. plants_to wildlife_ VIEW OTHER 5

6 in your yard Plants that honey eating birds CHARACTERIS- TICS Euodia Melicope ellerania 10m pink Ulysses/Dunk Is. blue Dutchman s Pipe Red Breynia Cassia Brown Laurel Aristolochia tagala/ acuminata Breynia sp. Iron Range Cassia Paluma Range Cryptocarya triplinervis vine 10m small Cairns birdwing 3-5m / grass yellows purple 5m yellow lemon migrant 10m+ yellow orchard swallowtail, Ambrax butterfly, Capaneus butterfly Brown Birch Scolopia braunii 10m Australian rustic Plants that nectar eating butterflies BOTANICAL NAME Callistemon sp. Melaleuca sp. Eucalyptus sp. Grevillea sp. Micromelum minutum Premna serratifolia Pentas lanceolata NAME Bottle brush Paperbarks Gum trees Grevillea Lime berry Creek premna Pentas wildcare.org. plants_to wildlife_ VIEW OTHER 6

7 in your yard Plants that mammals SCIENTIFIC NAME HEIGHT / WIDTH FLOWER WHAT EATS THE FRUIT Gum trees Eucalyptus crebra, E. tereticornis 10-30m favorite food for koalas, possums, gliders and flying foxes Palms Archontophoenix alexandrae to 35m large red fruit most larger fruit eaters including fig birds, Cassowary, parrots and Flying foxes Figs Ficus sp. most varieties 1-20m to red possums, bandicoots, flying foxes, birds, humans Plants that lizards SCIENTIFIC NAME HEIGHT / WIDTH FLOWER CHARACTERISTICS Native Grasses various varies varies usually clumping Mat Rush Lomandra sp. 1.2m x 1.2m dense clump of strap leaves, many micro climates and hiding places Dianella Dianella sp. Plants that 1m x 1m ass or rush Any gr ed gardens Heavily mulch Dianella atraxis ulea Dianella caer strix Lomandra hy ifolia ng lo Lomandra a johnsonii Xanthorrhoe 7 strap leaves clumping wildcare.org. plants_to wildlife_ LIZARDS bluepurple fruit Lizards are ed by grass and rushes because they are able to use the foliage for hiding under when predators approa ch and also use water collected on the stems to rehydrat e themselves. The grasses also prov ide a number of micro -climates in a ve ry small space which is ide al for their need to moderate body temperature. VIEW OTHER

8 in your yard Plants that frogs Mat Rush Lomandra sp. 1m x 1m CHARACTERIS- TICS thick strappy leaves, toads can t climb through Plants that useful insects Toothbrush Flowers Grevillea sp. -red, all colours CHARACTERIS- TICS large source of nectar, s native bees, insects and wasps Prickly Pine Bursaria tenuifolia 2-8m beetles, wasps and bees converge on flowering plants wildcare.org. plants_to wildlife_ VIEW OTHER 8

9 in your yard How to deal with PROBLEM POSSUMS Possums are a native animal to most areas of Australia, especially where we have decided to build our homes and s. Like many native animals, possum numbers have been reduced by the intrusion of humans, introduction of other animals into the area and reduction of natural nesting space and food sources. Sometimes possums can make a nuisance of themselves by getting into roof spaces and nesting in these quiet dark places, chewing wiring and disturbing domestic dogs. Environment and Natural Resources (DERM) have provided some useful information on deterring possums from your property and providing alternative nesting sites. Information provided by Wildlife Preservation Society of Queensland on how to make nesting boxes is also here. Below is a link to photos of the nesting boxes. wildlife.org. au/projects/gliders/ mahoganyupdate2.html environment.sa.gov. au/plants_and_animals/living_ with_wildlife/possums/common_ possum_problems To help live with our native animals the Department of Plants that possums: gliders and milampra Acmena he species Callistemon crebra Eucalyptus tereticornis Eucalyptus orus on grandifl m e st o h p o L species Melaleuca ecies Syzygium sp t Plants ttha attrac KOALAS tus crebra Eucalyp rnis s teretico tu p ly a c u E wildcare.org. plants_to wildlife_ VIEW OTHER 9