Our Chief Office Boy, my son Shannon, and his wife Edie are driving their Shitbox from Perth on 8th May travelling 5,150km to Sydney via Uluru on very little bitumen. They are team ‘Not My Fault’.Their whole trip will be over 11,000kms (if the car makes...
This is an excerpt from “Colonies in Collision” A Concatenated Chronicle of Termites and Termiteers in Australia 1788 – 2018 by Doug Howick and Ion Staunton. You can purchase a copy here. How important are termites in Australia anyway? In the...
1788 – 1800 – Colonies collide as settlers settle The soldier took the last morsel of the food that was offered and moved aside to allow the worker to pass. It was good to be on guard in this gallery where the temperature was more consistent than it was outside....
The inventor of TermiTraps and Tuckerbag Termite bait has just published a major history book on the Termite Wars since 1788. That’s when white colonists arrived in Sydney Cove and were met by termite colonies, pleased about all the timber these humans started using...
You might have wrapped yourself in a warmed house, a heated car and some woolies during winter but what about the termites? Cold weather slows them but doesn’t stop them. This time of the year, as the TV weather-presenters begin talking up warmer spring days,...
