Aspley's creeks and what they bring
Two creeks, three alert areas
Brisbane City Council lists Aspley under Cabbage Tree Creek and Little Cabbage Tree Creek, with gauges at Pineapple Street, Old Northern Road and Stringybark Drive.
Bushland on the same creeks
Both creeks also run past the 129 hectare Chermside Hills Reserves, part of the Mountains to Mangroves Corridor. The council lists swamp wallabies, gliders and possums there.
Mosquitoes that travel
Aspley doesn't need a beach to get saltmarsh mosquitoes. The council says adults can disperse at least 10 km from the wetlands where they hatch.
The backyard kind
The council calls the container mosquito the hardest to combat, because control depends on householders finding the water it breeds in.
Rats coming from the neighbour's overgrown yard?
Talk first
The council says to raise it with the owner, who may not know. Its letter template works if you'd rather not knock.
Know the rule
Under the Natural Assets Local Law 2003, vegetation that harbours vermin such as rats and mice is treated as hazardous, and the owner must reduce it.
Try mediation
If that goes nowhere, the council points you to the Dispute Resolution Centre.
Then report it
If it's still not fixed, report it to the council online.
Termites, possums and fire ants
A termite inspection in Aspley is about the house, not the suburb. The QBCC advises one every year, and termite treatment takes a QBCC licence as well as a pest management licence. Buyers should know a building and pest inspection is two licences, and we pass on the timber pest half.
With possums listed along these creeks, a thumping roof may well be one. They're protected in Queensland, so proofing is the fix that lasts. Our Brisbane possums page has the rules.
If you suspect fire ants, the report goes to Biosecurity Queensland within 24 hours, by law. It's never a job for our form.
If we lived in Aspley
We'd walk the yard after the next storm, tip out what's holding water, and have a friendly word over the fence if the neighbour's yard is the issue. Then tell us what's left.
Want someone to look at it?
Tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and a local pest business that handles exactly that calls you to talk it through.
