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Anthrenus verbasci - Carpet beetle in the flowering parsley.

Laying eggs in rotten log

You're such a fun guy!
Shucks

leaves curled shut, but there is white on the underside. in saturated soil and open light.

Common, in low alpine tussockland

juvenile

Celmisia thomsonii, locally common but confined to crevices in rock bluffs

the things sticking up look like rattlesnake tails, which reminded me there is a plant called adders tongue! is this one of them??

Four specimens on sandy ground amongst exotic grasses. This plant has been here for several years.

overwhelmed by the alpines RN

Abundant.

First seen and photographed by Felix Collins.

Brian Patrick said I should put up this record as there are no observations of bat-winged fly on NW!

Fully black fantail at Curio Bay, seen another one just a few km further at Waikawa wharf

growing in the spagnum in wet place very wild.

Small grove of mature trees in a basin

Cyanobacterial form, corticolous with Stica limbata on forest margin.

Local corticolous lichen on ribbonwood.

Small clumps of coastal turf, which are being damaged by rabbits and vehicles. At the mouth of a small stream on Oreti Beach, Southland.

Seeing these guys most days now

Growing in sand dune forest below totara canopy.

recently re-established. Possibly planted

Local in pugged wetland and in totara dune forest.

On swollen river banks.

?

Also in shot, Corybas cheesemanii

Sunset Point, Hokitika

Accidentally destroyed while planting, living in the long grass.

in the sand on the beach

inter tidal

inter tidal

a very very beautiful one. and tiny.

Rock louse or sea slater

famiky if four feeding

The largest of the hook grasses I've seen

native. not seen much.

As it lies on the rock the acid etches the algal patina to make a pseudo-fossil

?

In damp sandflats between dunes

In coastal dune slack. Year and month correct but exact date unsure

Many plants under podocarp swamp forest. Juveniles displaying many interesting forms.

Occasional in coastal scrub

Common, on coastal banks and cliffs

Local in drylands.

On basalt boulder in montane shrubland

Abundant on dry gravely montane outwash plains. Heavily in fruit.