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Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis)Observer
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This is why i love inaturalist so much! I did not know ladybird larvae looked like this. Found on a swan plant.
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Silver Orb Spider (Leucauge dromedaria)Observer
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Never seen this guy before!
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Whio (Blue Duck) (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos)Observer
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This blue Whio duck happily swam next to us during a photoshoot
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Black Tunnelweb Spider (Porrhothele antipodiana)Observer
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First time seeing this spider, it was huge! On its way to being moved out of the garage.
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Large Swimming Mayfly (Oniscigaster distans)Observer
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Found the skin of this bug right beside the river. It looks like a Nesameletus bug if someone can help me I.D it. :)
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Owlet Moths and Allies (Superfamily Noctuoidea)Observer
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A caterpillar that climbed on my book then bit me when i took it off, closest identification looks like a magpie moth caterpillar.
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Monarch (Danaus plexippus)Observer
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Two winter clusters of Monarch's high up in a tree that looks like a fir tree (a guess?)
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Blue Wanderer (Tirumala hamata ssp. hamata)Observer
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Flew past us on the track on the way to KareKare beach! Then managed to snap this photo.
