Occasional, epiphytic on coastal totara
Microlaena avenacea, locally common on track margin
She's been occupying a huge orb web the past two weeks.
3 Exminster St, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland.
Slime mold - Stemonitis splendens ?
growing on the side of an old log
Occasional, under lowland alluvial podocarp-broadleaved forest
Pneumatopteris pennigera, locally common in highly modified remnant native forest
Jelly like fungi with spiky surface.
Occasional, under lowland alluvial podocarp-broadleaved forest
Four birds on edge of reservoir
newly emerged, climbing a water pipe outside the house (photos turned sideways).
I spent a couple of days in the winter of 1991 with a friend practising macro photography on the fungi we found in Riccarton Bush. The photos weren't taken with an eye to identification. Perhaps some are of interest though, since this was over 20 years ago now.
(Is the last photo the same thing?)
Very strange - a caterpillar trapped by a dead leaf ... the caterpillar may have just died and fallen onto the leaf, which subsequently shriveled and curled as it dried out ... but the caterpillar doesn't look decomposed, in fact it looks rather fresh ...
Rare, under montane podocarp-broadleaved scrub
8 individuals seen