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Order PhysaralesObserver
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What I think is a mold growing on a number of different plants. here, its on clover and couch grass
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Puffballs (Family Lycoperdaceae)Observer
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Growing in a shaded area in the front yard in the grass next to a big Avocado tree.
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Honeycomb Coral Slime Mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa)Observer
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Not too sure what its growing on, but its under a Houheria Populnea. One part has gone slimy, I assume due to the rain we had.
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Genus TrametesObserver
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Not too sure if there are two different types here, or not, but am seeing slightly darker colour on the ones to the right. Growing on a half buried log. Cant remember what I put there now. Bigger than the last ones I found and more clumped together rather than being spread out.
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Family OmphalotaceaeObserver
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Found growing in mixed woodchip with alot of other mulch made up of mixed leaves and twigs. The caps are almost transparent, you can see the gills through them.
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Genus LeucoagaricusObserver
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Growing between some rock next to rengarenga lillies.
I squished part of it to see if it changed colour, it didnt.
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Arthropods (Phylum Arthropoda)Observer
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Just to the right of the beetle is a centipede(?)
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Aitanga Pepeke (Insects) (Class Insecta)Observer
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An insect on the end of the Oak trunk
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Knobbled Orbweaver (Socca pustulosa)Observer
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A spider that yesterday caught a honey bee in its web.
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Genus TrametesObserver
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On an Oak trunk thats lying on the ground
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Echium Leaf Miner (Dialectica scalariella)Observer
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5-6mm long. Found on borage leaves early in the morning. antennae vibrating from side to side when they are by themselves on the leaf.
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Genus AcanthoxylaObserver
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Found on the lacy curtain on the inside of my front door. I put it on the fern so I could take its pic.
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Green Garden Looper (Chrysodeixis eriosoma)Observer
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Butterfly/moth on the inside wall of the house.
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Magpie Moth (Nyctemera annulata)Observer
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Found in my back yard on a lemon verbena plant. Couldnt get a pick of the abdomen, but its long, with black and yellow segments.
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Northern Wattle Moth (Dasypodia cymatodes)Observer
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Found on the cornice of my bedroom. It got taken outside just on dark the next day.
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Two-spined Spider (Poecilopachys australasia)Observer
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Found on an Avocado leaf in my back yard
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Stubble Rosegill (Volvopluteus gloiocephalus)Observer
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Found along side the house over a mature 4 O'Clock Marvel root.
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Southern Cinnabar Polypore (Trametes coccinea)Observer
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Found on top of a fallen Oak branch.
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Orange Pore Fungus (Favolaschia claudopus)Observer
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Found in mulch under a Hazel tree
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Stubble Rosegill (Volvopluteus gloiocephalus)Observer
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Is this another Stubble Rosegill?
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Genus AcanthoxylaObserver
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I found this in the pot you see behind my hand. It wasnt there an hour before hand. I thought it was dead yesterday but today when I went to put it in the garden, I blew on it, for some unknown reason and it moved its antennae and legs. I need to know what this is so I can try to look after it. It is missing two legs and I think maybe a bird tried to carry it off by a leg and dropped it.
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Shelf Fungi (Order Polyporales)Observer
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This is growing at the top of an old Walnut stump. Actually the Walnut stump is more like a hollow now than a stump.
In the first pic, to the right, you can see the remains of older, earlier ones that have fallen away and are no longer attached to anything.
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Stubble Rosegill (Volvopluteus gloiocephalus)Observer
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I found this today growing next to a NZ cabbage tree branch. The colour is a bit washed out in the pic. the cap was more of a shiny grey colour, similar to an Oyster mushroom.
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Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies (Class Agaricomycetes)Observer
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What sort of lichen is this?
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Black-tipped Orange Ichneumon Wasp (Ctenochares bicolorus)Observer
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I think this is a hornet on this leaf, but I'm not sure.
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Fungus-eating Ladybird (Illeis galbula)Observer
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Another ladybird I'd like to get ID'd.
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Plague Skink (Lampropholis delicata)Observer
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I'm hoping this is a baby native skink.(what a horrible name for such a cute creature).
These turned up in by back yard 6 months after I started putting rat bait out, so not last Spring but the Spring before.
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Harlequin Ladybird (Harmonia axyridis)Observer
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I dont think this is something I should want in the garden but dont know for sure what exactly it is.
