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31 workers caught in wasp trap
I was hoping this skink was native but zooming in on my photo, I think the head scale means it's a plague skink?
I have plague ones in my garden, unfortunately, but this one was some distance away in a firewood pile, inside a gap between the bark and wood of a log, found when relocating the wood pile
I've since found more of them hiding in the wood pile. No eggs at this stage
Was flying around in the bush
Southern grass skink/tussock skink? Neither show on iNaturalist. Seen at Orokonui Ecosanctuary
Maybe? Or possibly an ivy, (as I initially thought from the glossy robust cotyledon leaf with veins similar to English ivy's), with unusual colouration of true leaf due to poor conditions? NB image 2 shows what appear to be tiny teeth or hairs around the rim of the first true leaf
A recently invasive seedling, left in situ for monitoring re ID, then to be uprooted. Interestingly, just two seedlings here in deep mulch in ornamental garden with monkey apple hedge; the other seedling was Kahili ginger (uprooted in last image)
German or Common European
German or Common European
Not my photo, best one I got sent. Have lightened it in the second one.
Found inside, neighbouring reserve has both copper and ornate