Carindale, from the hills to the creek
Belmont Hills Reserve
Brisbane City Council is restoring sites at Greendale Way and Scrub Road to add habitat for koalas, red-necked wallabies and glossy black cockatoos. It also names Belmont Hills Bushland among its koala habitat reserves.
The Spring Creek link
The council says those sites connect to the Bulimba Creek corridor through Spring Creek, and to bushland in Burbank. Wildlife moves along lines like that.
Bulimba Creek and Phillips Creek
Carindale's flood alert reads from Bulimba Creek at Old Cleveland Road. The 2026-27 works program also lists vegetation management on Phillips Creek at Bedivere Street.
Helicopters along the creek
A November 2025 council notice listed aerial mosquito treatment along Bulimba Creek, as well as at the Boondall and Tinchi Tamba wetlands.
What's yours, and what isn't
You can
- Tip out saucers, tarps and old tyres after every decent rain.
- Keep mulch and garden beds from building up against the walls.
- Photograph mud tubes or soft timber, and leave them untouched.
- Look for the termite notice in your electrical meter box.
Leave to a pest business
- Roof space and subfloor inspections.
- Termite treatment, which needs a QBCC licence as well as a pest licence.
- Possum proofing, and any lawful catch and release within Queensland's 25 metre limit.
- Wasp nests near a door or play area.
Tell them what backs onto your fence
If your yard meets bushland or a creek, say so before any treatment is planned. Tell the technician about kids, pets, fish tanks and veggie gardens too, so they can plan the work and tell you any precautions.
Ask which product they'll use, and its full name, and how long before everyone can go back outside.
Buying in Carindale
The QBCC says to get a building inspection and a termite inspection before you finalise a purchase, and to make your satisfaction with both a condition of the contract. A building and pest inspection is two licences, though one person can hold both. We pass on the timber pest half.
If you spot fire ants at an inspection or at home, report them to Biosecurity Queensland within 24 hours, as the law requires. Never a job for a form like ours.
Where we land
Treat the bush as your neighbour and the water as your job. Empty what collects in the yard, keep the termite check on the calendar, and tell us what you've seen if something moves in.
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.
