NAME
Senecio glaucophyllus Cheeseman
PARENT
BIOSTATUS
Endemic, present in the wild
DISTRIBUTION
northwest Nelson
HABITAT
Terrestrial
REFERENCES
Liew, C.-S. et al. 2021: Taxonomic realignment of Senecio glaucophyllus (Asteraceae; Senecioneae) necessitates a new name for a widespread New Zealand species. New Zealand journal of botany, DOI
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NZOR
Anobium punctatum? Found crawling on a desk inside Tūranga library.
Either Stegobium paniceum or Lasioderma serricorne.
@stephen_thorpe Thank you for the ID. Is there a way to separate those two species? Neither has been recorded on iNaturalistNZ in Canterbury before. I still have the specimen. I don't have it in front of me now, but from memory, it's between 1 and 2 mm long. I should be able to measure it more accurately and look for other diagnostic characters later today.
You need to examine the antennae, which they tend to tuck away behind the head. Stegobium has a distinct 3-segmented antennal club, whereas Lasioderma has a more uniformly serrated antenna.
@stephen_thorpe I've added a picture with a clearer view of an antenna. This is Stegobium, right?
Hmm, depends on if that antenna is entire or broken. How many segments before the 3 big triangular ones?
@stephen_thorpe Thank you for your help with this!
Distinctive brownish hairs around ventral midvein in a v form
Beautiful red grasshopper 🦗
Hemiparasitic on Olearia
Interesting. The wing pattern looks like Hydriomena rixata, although the colour has faded and the lack of wing fringes makes the wing look more scalloped than it usually would.
Thanks for your comment!
I'm pleased you say that as I had wondered H. rixata after seeing an observation of one a couple of weeks back, but when I compared today didn't quite look right. Your explanation about the wing fringes could explain that however.
a worn example of this distinct species
Terrible weed.
Abundant. Actively feeding on Selliera and Samolus flowers in the saltmarsh along with lots of honey bees.
interesting behavior in a saltmarsh habitat; I imagine larval hostplants of kowhai, gorse or tree lupin were present closeby.
It is a diurnal indigenous moth with colourful conspicuous caterpillars on kowhai and some exotic pea family species
Appear to be growing out of soil under native grass.
It would have been growing from dead stem of a plant. It could easily be the Ranunculus repens in the photo, although I'm not aware of any records of a Sclerotinia species with R. repens. These things tend to be host specific. What other plants were around? Any other Ranunculus species? Juncus?
These are the fruitbodies of a fungus that produces the common 'botrytis' mold on many things.
Yes you have buttercup (Ranunculus repens) in the photo, but also what could be decaying rush (Juncus) stems. Both buttercups (some of them) and rushes each have their own species of Sclerotinia. So, we will just leave this as Sclerotinia. To identify many fungi you need to note, and identify, associated plants.
A small weka??? At kakamatua.
I suspect more likely. A similar pattern on the flight feathers can be seen in this observation: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/39071673
@sdjbrown I don’t think the throat/neck plumage fits. Also I did find a paper that showed some releases they did in huia in the 1970’s here it is: https://www.notornis.osnz.org.nz/system/files/Notornis_37_1_45.pdf
For it to be a weka this would be the first in a long while for the area, much much smaller than usual, and unusually coloured. This is the size of a banded rail with plumage resembling one, in a location that many have been recorded.
The specimen is still there as far as I know. If it was a weka it would make it the first weka sighted in the area since 1985. Which would be amazing and I know the much more likely option would be the rail but to me the plumage doesn’t really fit either of the options. Which makes me think that a isolated population could have changed its plumage to fit the area maybe???
Mate populations don't change phenotypes anywhere near that quickly. This would be the tiniest weka and had adapted to extremely closely resemble a banded rail. Occam's Razor says it is more likely to be the bird it is the size, plumage and modern habitat of, which is banded rail.
@skipperdogman @lloyd_esler
You can more clearly see the flight feathers in this photo
http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/sites/all/files/1200309Banded%20rail%203.jpg
Me thinks?
I'd agree, though is this in a garden @abbeypruden?
No evidence of an ichneumonid, and I'm currently not seeing any range data for that genus including New Zealand.
@dave_holland we have Ichneumonid wasps dont we?
I assume this was a record of an observation that the camera failed to capture...@stoph?
Cicada?
Not sure, I saw something similar in Field Naturalists of Victoria indicating it may be the pupal case of large Rain Moth, Cossid Moth or Swift (Hepialid) Moth or from the Moth genus Abantiades where the grub lives and pupates underground, then emerges as very large moth in rainy conditions.
Very interesting. Are you able to get a photo with the leaves cleared away to see the stipe better?
This is what I think it might be - pileus circular, stipe central and by the look of itconcolorous with the pileus, white pore surface, growing possibly from roots. A. calcigenum is present in NZ according to NZFungi2, but we have no photos and no collections, and the pore surface here is a different colour from descriptions I've read. If it could be collected that would be fantastic. If not more photos would be great and whether the pore surface bruises to the touch. Also size of fruiting body and pores per mm.
I’ll go back for a walk in a few days. Will let you know if I find it again. I found it in Morere DOC reserve, On the Nikau Loop track. (I live just across the road). I’m finding that it’s a pretty unexplored area of the country, even with the Reserve just there. https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/east-coast/places/morere-area/things-to-do/nikau-loop-track/
No, I don't have a DOC permit. I usually only collect something that's interesting like this or operate under our FUNNZ permit. Permits though are specific to a given area rather than nationwide. Gisborne is one of the areas FUNNZ hasn't been to. Maybe we should consider it.
Sorry I didn't get back to take more pics. Life got away on me. There're some quite unusual invertebrates here, I wouldn't be surprised if the fungi were unique too. Might have something to do with it being a rainforest, and the limited taxonomic attention things get out on the east coast. Lots of cool places to stay nearby too.
Not familiar, unless just an over-mature M. oreades
Something ausi me thinks
Based on the leaves and whorls of flower buds, I expect it's a firewheel tree. Let us know what it looks like when those flowers open.
@jon_sullivan I've finally added a flowering picture... unfortunately it was too high up for a good pic.
The complete front hedge of around 60 trees and one tree in the garden is suffering from Myrtle Rust. The local garden told me to contact MPI. But the website directed me here.
I need advice what to do as I live in the middle of the Waitkere Rangers
You are right: the recommendations are to post MR observations here on iNat to monitor spread in NZ. There is a product sold at https://www.kiwicare.co.nz/problem/myrtle-rust/ but I really don't know if that provides an effective solution.
Hi thanks for posting pictures of all that nasty myrtle rust. Unfortunately your plants will be acting as a source of inoculum that could infect our native species in the Waitakere Ranges. For information about the ideal way to remove the plants, see here:
https://www.myrtlerust.org.nz/assets/Uploads/How-to-remove-infected-myrtle-plants-and-safely-dispose-of-the-waste.pdf
Growing in boggy clearings.
I think? It doesn't look quite hairy enough for E. insulare, but could be that
small-leaved
stem got accidentally broken a couple of weeks ago, perhaps by whoever brought and left here some exotic plants in pots.
Despite having been left leafless, it has grown new shoots.
Provenance of this and one other planted specimen (the 2nd did not survive):
https://inaturalist.nz/observations?project_id=30375&taxon_id=405985&place_id=any&verifiable=any
This one has been IDd already Mark, I should have added a link. Will do asap. It is planted here, a seedling collected from under a specimen in Eskdale Reserve Domain Rd margin, (c.200m from here) and id'd by Jon and esler
Photos / Sounds
What
Tropical Horseweed Erigeron sumatrensisObserver
arnimDate
January 16, 2021 06:59 AM NZDTPlace
Foxton Beach, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Tags
a well established weed