Green Lacewing Hello my name is Gracey. You would better know me as an iridescent green glassy-winged insect who lays her eggs on long slender white stalks all over the garden. You very rarely see me on your plants because I like to carry my snack wrappers on my back as fashion accessories. My favourite home is amongst veggies, roses, or any other part of the garden where I can find my favourite snacks which are aphids, mites, juvenile whitefly, small caterpillars and moth eggs. I  will also eat mealy bug if they are the only food you have in your garden. Like my Buddies, I am delivered to you in a small plastic container. I come as an egg with 99 of my sisters, packed in Lucerne chaff. Sprinkle the chaff equally into small shallow cardboard containers or my very own release boxes and hang them close to my favourite food so that when I hatch I can start eating straight away.
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Predatory mite G’day my name is Pete. I am very busy and always hungry because I have eight legs to feed.  You probably never ever see me because I am very small but I do a big job in your backyard. My favourite food is Two spotted mite (TSM). TSM’s are those pesky blighters that suck all the nutrients out of foliage and cause russetting and yellowing of your precious rose leaves, tomato leaves and many other plants . I am delivered to you in a small plastic container with 999 of my mates on 20-30 bean leaves. Place one bean leaf into each plant where TSM like to live. If TSM are a big problem (webbing under the leaves), place 2-3 bean leaves into each plant.
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Mealybug-eating ladybird Hi, my name is Linda and I’m your best friend if you have plants that suffer from mealybug attack. My little baby sisters and I love to eat mealybugs, they are like little balls of white fairly floss. My second favourite food is Pulvinaria scales like cottony scale in citrus and other soft scales. Since my brother Luke also likes scale I leave them for him to eat if there are enough mealybugs around. I am delivered to you in a small plastic container with 39 of my sisters and we rapidly go to work finding mealybugs to eat and laying our eggs into mealybug egg masses. Our babies then hatch 2-3 weeks later and sometimes they can be confused with mealybugs because they look similar, like little white balls of fluff; but they move much faster on plants. Tap 1-2 of my sisters out of the plastic container very close to a mealybug infestation. My sisters and I will feed on up to 40m2 of garden infested with mealybugs.
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Scale-eating ladybird G’day my name is Luke, and I love to eat scale. Scale are like little mini pizzas to me and I enjoy an assortment of flavours like Red scale, Oriental scale, Oleander scale and White louse scale (citrus snow scale). Just like my sister I have baby brothers who also feed on scale and they look very different to me. In fact they look like little brown porcupines. You will see them about 1 week after you release me into the garden. I am delivered to you in a small plastic container with 29 of my brothers  and we rapidly go to work finding scale to eat . Tap one or two of us out of the plastic container very close to a scale infestation. My brothers and I we will feed on 20-40m2 of garden infested with scale.
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Fly parasitoid Greetings, my name is Walter and my job is a little different from the other Backyard Buddies. In a lot of ways my job is the most important because I help protect the rest of my Buddies from the deadly fly spray which can kill us all. I have the very specialized task of controlling house flies, stable/horse flies and buffalo flies by zeroing in on fly larvae. It’s a dirty job but I am well trained in this area. Once I find fly larvae I deposit some eggs and my little baby brothers and sisters soon hatch out and use the fly larvae as baby food to grow and develop. In doing so, we control flies before they become adults. To achieve this goal we need to be released in areas where flies are breeding, starting in spring or early summer. Follow-up releases are required every fortnight during the fly season. I come in a special cocoon of fly pupae mixed in vermiculite with about 2500 of my brothers and sisters. If you have horses or cows you should release a min. of 100 & max 500 of us per animal per fortnight. For smaller animals like chooks, cats and dogs you need between 5-50 of us to be released every fortnight. 
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