Hitchhiked from Canada inside a suit case. Euthanized in the freezer.
BNZ were informed and the matter has been dealt with. If you are concerned you have seen a BMSB please call 0800 80 99 66 to report it :)
Naturalised on banks of artificial stream in garden. Mature fruiting tree about 50 metres away.
This is the male that goes with the female and larva, pupa stages of this mosquito
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/34195726
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/34054522
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/33690323
Here's a mystery plant that Hugh Wilson found in a "crack in paved footpath outside Jamie's General Store in Akaroa." "At first glance looked like a Veronica, but not. Lvs opp, toothed, softly hairy above, pale beneath, hairy along veins, stems straight (whole plant softly hairy with short straight hairs)."
Hugh found it and collected in in Oct. 2020, sketched it on 10 November, and later posted a photocopy to me to see if iNaturalist could identify it. His specimen will also be wending its way to the Allan herbarium.
Any ideas?
the largest of several in shingle. Obvious salt tolerance and a few spines about 3cm long
Is this some sort of cicada? Lovely aqua green colour. Found on a watering can.
Hello, is this myrtle rust on my myrtle??
Found trying to cross the road near my driveway. Wanting to determine species so I can figure out rough age, as I suspect it may have escaped from a neighbour
The most stunning (native) moth I have seen - the photos don't do it justice. The forewings were a bright blue colour and when it took off it revealed the most brilliant orange hindwings with black stripes (just visible in the second photo).
Truly amazing. I cannot stop thinking about it and wonder if anyone knows what it is... I thought perhaps Paranotoreas?
It flitted off before I could get better photos.
Blurry photo, sorry. It was in a container.
A single wild great willowherb growing in an empty section immediately to the west-northwest of Cathedral Square, on Worcester Street. It's fenced off private property so I couldn't access it (to kill it).
The dark brown plant, growing on the edge of a path.
This little fella arrived in a package from Rotorua today. Is it fair to let him go in Southland ?
Saw this little guy at the base of a tree, was not scared of people at all
Check middle of the photo. Seems to be a wingless female cranefly. Later laid many eggs. Any ideas?
Specimen confirmed as Four-lined silverfish by MPI
Abundant seedlings in a covenanted beech forest.
Small nest entrance in dry soil. Worker and soldier castes observed, workers sometimes returning carrying small inverts possibly Collembola
Spotted flying low in the dunes. Rested briefly. Strong northwesterly at the time of observation. Northeasterly and northerly wind the previous day. Butterfly eventually flew north-west over the beach in the direction of a headland.
Parasitizing NZ praying mantis oothecae
Method: Visual search for insects or spiders. Found on the window sill
Spotted in red zone near new Brighton, flew away before we could get a better photo
Berries. Look like exploded views of covid19, known as Corona berries to my kids
Been back and forth for 2 days. Flying between the Kowhai Tree and Sugar water feeder
Presumably wild. Single plant noted growing under a silver germander (Teucrium fruticans). Not seen in adjacent garden or indeed in any of the street side gardens in vicinity. I am more familiar with this species as a naturalised plant from the far north of Northland, where it can be locally common e.g., Kaitaia.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange 14773 & F.J.T. de Lange, UNITEC 11738
Saplings under parent tree.
Rescued from a pile of greenwaste.
Disturbing on so many levels....
Naturalised, frustratingly.
Note that each of these 'rosettes' are individual plants, i.e., it does not have a creeping rhizome.
Corticolous on fallen tree privet. ID by @marshy
Seedlings naturalising in cracks of path
Metallic blue colour
Insecta: Lepidoptera
Oecophoridae, Stathmopodinae
Stathmopoda orbiculata
Lam Tsuen San Tsuen, Tai Po, Hong Kong.
This is the second record of this small (6mm long) moth in Hong Kong
The Stathmopodinae have a very distinctive resting posture and heavily bristled legs - an unmistakeable combination!
Note that Stathmopodinae is regarded by some taxonomists as a valid family within the Gelechioidea, and was treated as such in the overview of Lepidoptera by van Nieukirken et al., 2011
what a find! I think this is the right species.. it is a small one growing in amoungst natives, it was possibly planted though?
Not seen but the distinctive call was heard at approximately 8pm. This is the first time I have one in Christchurch.
There were at least 100 dead shells in a very small area. See the YouTube video for exactly how many in a short distance.:
https://youtu.be/23P7czVpOZ4
Is this normal are there just heaps in this area or did this long heat take its toll on these?
The chocolate-colored underside to the hindwings is diagnostic for this rare eastern South Island species of copper butterfly. Caterpillars on Muehlenbeckia complexa. Both South Island glade copper and Canterbury Common copper are present on these roadside patches of pohuehue too.
Sister Rene Shadbolt Park, Blockhouse Bay/Green Bay/New Lynn, Auckland 0600. One moth found by day on vegetation on the bank of the Avondale Stream. No obvious host plants observed.
A sooty mold on sap-sucker exudate on grapefruit leaves. Usually loosely called Capnodium citri in the literature - a name covering multiple species. In this case microscopy indicates this is actually Chaetaboliisia falcata. This is sometimes recorded on Citrus, but not in NZ before. However the species was originally described from Tanoak and so equivalence of this citrus-sooty mold component remains to be proven.
Large leaves, at least 20 cm diameter. Growing locally with taro. Hydrocotyle or lotus?
Appears to be naturalised. Did not seem to be planted. On the Southern side of Waipapa Road, Kerikeri
I kid you not, found 1km up Gebbies Pass Rd. Unfortunately it passed away before we collected it. I work for DOC (hence the fact it’s on the back of a truck) and was IDed by another ranger because I haven’t a clue. Oddly, not the first seal blobbing up Gebbies Pass... if not a crabeater, another ID would be awesome.
A garden escape from Himatangi settlement, 1km north?
found in the yard- no ideas.
Gittos Domain, in the vicinity of Blockhouse Bay Primary School. By day, on a weedy Cyperus sp., at the side of a track.
Young wild rabbit found by our dog
First record in NZ since 1990 according to https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1091216932
and
https://avh.ala.org.au/occurrences/search?taxa=lathyrus%20sphaericus#tab_mapView
Stand to be corrected of course.
Amazingly the last observation was in almost exactly the same place in 1990! Must have been ticking along in this place ever since. I'll be keeping an eye out for it in the wider Port Hills area.
photos courtesy of Jeff Poplin, North Carolina
seen during evening astronomy session
says David Morgan, who spotted them, "I kept seeing a faint spot of light on the curbing about 70 yards away."
As far as I can tell previously unknown from the Port Hills. There were about a dozen gaps in the rock wall occupied accounting for about an eighth of the circumference of the water tank. I checked the rock walls around the perimeter of the reserve and found none. Something to keep an eye out for in the hills @jon_sullivan
Got some pics with sori @david_lyttle
Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, Auckland 1072, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus.
Habitat: Beaten from Trifolium pratense, at the margin of level 1 unsealed carpark.
Identification: Coleophora deauratella Lienig & Zeller, 1846. New to N.Z.!