Date Added
March 15, 2024
07:59 PM UTC
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December 19, 2018
08:30 AM NZDT
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December 9, 2023
05:39 PM NZDT
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December 22, 2021
09:53 PM NZDT
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March 11, 2019
10:17 PM UTC
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January 7, 2020
08:02 PM NZDT
Description
A colony on rotting beech log under silver beech forest
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January 29, 2024
07:31 PM NZDT
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January 21, 2024
08:53 PM UTC
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January 13, 2024
11:19 AM NZDT
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April 19, 2023
09:45 PM NZST
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September 4, 2023
09:44 PM NZST
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November 13, 2023
12:31 AM EST
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December 3, 2023
04:47 PM NZDT
Date Added
December 9, 2022
03:46 PM NZDT
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May 26, 2023
06:14 PM NZST
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January 1, 2023
03:40 PM GMT
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January 29, 2023
07:45 PM NZDT
Description
Desperately wanting some of my fish n' chips!
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November 28, 2023
05:02 PM NZDT
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February 16, 2023
09:07 PM CET
Description
There were countless dead Gannets on the cliff, most of them adults. I asked a ranger what might have killed these birds, and he said they had starved to death. Fishing grounds are further and further away with less and less fish, and so the Gannet population here is nearing collapse. He said by comparison to 2017, the colony for this time of the year is at 20%. He then told me he was deeply concerned about Cyclone Gabrielle's impact. At this point I hadn't yet realized what was coming other than a few days of rain and stiff winds, and so I heeded his advise, and did what everybody else was doing: Stock up with emergency supplies, and get prepared.
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February 11, 2023
11:40 AM NZDT
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January 31, 2023
11:57 PM HST
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March 6, 2023
11:57 PM PST
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March 19, 2023
11:08 AM NZDT
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March 23, 2023
10:48 PM NZDT
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November 21, 2023
07:51 AM UTC
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June 7, 2023
09:25 PM NZST
What
Tūī
(Prosthemadera novaeseelandiae)
Date Added
November 19, 2023
07:47 PM AEDT
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October 24, 2023
11:52 AM NZDT
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October 21, 2023
09:44 PM NZDT
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October 21, 2023
06:52 PM NZDT
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October 15, 2023
03:49 PM NZDT
Description
Location not exact, as these birds are sensitive to human disruption.
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September 27, 2023
09:20 AM AEST
Description
Are there genetically pure PBD in NZ anymore (I thought they have all been hybridised with Mallards?)
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September 19, 2023
07:01 AM NZST
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August 28, 2023
02:42 PM NZST
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August 11, 2023
12:25 PM NZST
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July 24, 2023
09:35 AM NZST
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August 12, 2023
07:30 PM NZST
Description
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. At night.
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November 14, 2023
05:45 PM NZDT
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August 14, 2023
07:52 PM NZST
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October 7, 2023
04:09 AM UTC
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October 8, 2023
12:01 AM UTC
Description
Under decaying mountain beech log
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October 25, 2023
09:50 PM UTC
Description
on underside of large old fallen tree trunk
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November 5, 2023
12:28 PM NZDT
Description
Three younger birds present, being fed by parents
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March 12, 2022
07:28 AM NZDT
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April 11, 2023
11:35 AM UTC
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March 20, 2023
04:35 AM UTC
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February 14, 2023
05:29 PM NZDT
Description
Albert Park, Auckland CBD. On Ficus macrophylla. Many wasps on syconia, ovipositing.
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August 9, 2016
10:33 AM NZST
Description
Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Mount Wellington/Otahuhu, Mount Richmond Domain.
Habitat: Ficus rubiginosa. Common on underside of leaves.
Identification: Pleistodontes imperialis Saunders, 1882. Females.
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September 5, 2021
02:43 PM NZST
Description
Maybe - or the other self-establishing canopy changer that will be a weed disaster in native remnant forests… more commonly found on Phoenix palms in the central suburbs
Three closeups added feb 2022. Leaf blade 70 to 110 mm long (part shade) and petiole 30 to 40mm ;
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April 3, 2022
12:33 PM NZST
Description
Albert Park, Auckland CBD, Auckland 1010. On Ficus macrophylla.
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November 26, 2022
07:46 AM NZDT
Description
Native bush, on the vegetation (New Zealand Cabbage Tree (Cordyline australis)) at night.
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December 15, 2022
03:23 PM HST
Description
In terms of moth uploads, I am currently 16 days (and A LOT of moths!) behind real-time. Only my 3rd day at home this December. So... we are still on my way up to Kahurangi National Park. Here is an interesting batch from a night at Lake Rotoroa (Nelson Lakes) in the beech forest and adjoining shrubland.
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September 11, 2022
08:36 PM NZST
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December 23, 2022
10:24 PM NZDT
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October 5, 2022
08:48 PM NZDT
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October 25, 2022
08:46 PM HST
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September 29, 2022
03:17 PM NZDT
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August 13, 2022
10:33 AM UTC
Description
A small unidentified copepod approx 0.7mm long in surface plankton haul off Tiritiri Matangi Island.
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July 17, 2022
08:26 PM NZST
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July 11, 2022
02:42 AM UTC
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June 15, 2022
06:38 PM NZST
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May 29, 2022
05:42 PM NZST
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March 9, 2022
02:52 PM NZDT
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March 25, 2022
05:25 PM NZDT
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December 15, 2020
09:35 AM NZDT
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March 5, 2022
02:04 PM NZDT
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March 30, 2021
05:47 PM NZDT
Date Added
March 27, 2016
03:14 PM NZDT
Description
Parasitic on Amphipsalta zelandica - seven hosts noted dead on track side.
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March 3, 2021
02:10 PM NZDT
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February 17, 2021
03:11 PM NZDT
Description
A head-on view showing the big compound eyes.
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February 12, 2021
09:33 AM NZDT
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February 6, 2021
10:54 AM AEDT
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February 6, 2021
10:54 AM AEDT
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February 4, 2021
04:32 AM UTC
Description
Verigated type leaf. Very pretty
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February 4, 2021
08:30 AM NZDT
Description
Noted on Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica).
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January 21, 2021
08:34 PM UTC
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January 22, 2021
04:15 PM NZDT
Description
Common, in coastal grassland
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January 22, 2021
06:55 AM UTC
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January 23, 2021
11:44 AM NZDT
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January 23, 2021
07:59 PM NZDT
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January 23, 2021
09:55 AM UTC
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January 25, 2021
04:47 AM NZDT
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January 25, 2021
03:02 PM NZDT
Description
Severe infestation - one of the worst I have ever seen on this host species. Two planted tree's growing on margin of spring; these 5-6 tall. All young growth and especially floral primordia and maturing inflorescences covered in urediniospores.
Bees (Apis mellifera) noted harvesting spores - see https://inaturalist.nz/observations/68580488.
These tree's I have been watching monthly since September 2017. I last checked them on 1 January 2021 (not Austropuccinia was evident then). This infestation was reported to me by Wendy John who noted it on 23 January 2021 - see https://inaturalist.nz/observations/68482642
Date Added
January 25, 2021
05:51 PM NZDT
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January 26, 2021
10:02 AM NZDT
Description
2 lots of larvae 2nd and 3rd instar
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January 27, 2021
02:13 PM NZDT
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January 27, 2021
04:14 PM NZDT
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January 27, 2021
06:47 PM NZDT
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January 27, 2021
02:11 PM HST
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January 28, 2021
03:31 PM NZDT
Description
Common along the upper, more open part of the track
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January 29, 2021
03:11 PM NZDT
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January 30, 2021
11:37 PM UTC
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January 31, 2021
04:45 PM NZDT
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January 31, 2021
04:47 PM NZDT
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January 31, 2021
08:25 PM NZDT
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February 1, 2021
08:07 AM NZDT
Description
I've seen similar slugs in the forest, but never in the alpine at 1600m. A v cool critter!
Date Added
February 1, 2021
10:03 AM NZDT
Date Added
February 1, 2021
02:03 PM NZDT
Description
One of 25 seen around the lake. I have assumed they are all Green and golden bell frogs, but this one looks a bit more like a Southern bell frog?
Date Added
January 23, 2021
07:49 AM UTC
Date Added
January 10, 2021
04:35 PM NZDT
Description
About 20 m down the track from a cluster of these observed in early December. This one was attracting numerous blowflies.