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Found wandering the wet sand near the wave line. About 7-8mm long (the length of my little finger nail). The shell had a satin finish, not shiny at all.

Seen in salt marsh

In driveway-pavement edge.

Sand beetle. 3mm

Size 10-12mm in length.
Roving about amongst riverbank plants. Did not stop in the hot sunny aspect at any stage.

Larvae under bark of dead standing tree 21 Nov 2021, reared.

On the wall of the house at night. Collected. Another one!

Observed with @gakudesu.
At the border of a garden and a regenerating (?) native bush.
Pretending to be dead, however I confirmed that it was alive. Collected and frozen now.

This was about 3mm long. Seen at the position indicated and moved for the photo. There were several in the rock pool.

Growing on fallen tree.

Found near dead indoors.

12 mm, SLAM trap in semi urban garden

Larva found feeding on Helichrysum lanceolatum, readily accepted Brachyglottis repanda in captivity and reared on this. Adult emerged 28 Nov 2021.

10-12 mm, SLAM trap semi rural garden

from Plagianthus flowers, less than 1cm long

Rare on saltmarsh ribbonwood.

on a child's wrist. Pic Jo Lusk

Never seen this in the city before - on fallen shrub in riparian forest.

Terricolous on slippage on clay with Ditrichum difficile. Male and female plants present.

Inside see through casing. Alive. Many of them scattered throughout beach. Some just had eggs inside them. Open from both ends.

In a carex geminata sedge land.

Size of square image is 24 mm x 24 mm, i.e. 1:1.

Found on an agapanthus plant.

Attracted to light, 40w Actinic (Heath Trap). 11-12 December 2020. First NZ specimen (male). Find registered with MPI and ID confirmed by DNA barcode.

Small, 4mm long. The limpet is a baby. Last photo is in situ.

Vine with tendrils

Resting on Melicytus leaf at 7.55 am.

Resting on the underside of a Melicytus leaf in the early morning. Others observed the previous evening at 6.35 to 6.40 pm, flying.

Under a rock in a intertidal pool.

Orange ribbon worm under boulder, intertidal zone (parallel lines on bottom of container 3mm apart).

Another type of flatworm lurking in the low intertidal zone under a rock.

Emerged from wild caught Nezara viridula

Adult. Accidentally clobbered by son who found it crawling out of freshly harvested parsley (Petroselinum crispum) and assumed it was a pest.