Auckland entomological field trip. Forested stream bank. At night. Not sure if its dondalei or aquaticus @dustinarachnophile . Found with @invertebratist
Pine/scrub forest. Under log. 1000th observation!!!!!!!! Woohoo!
Small forested stream. In log. Woo! Such an honour to find one of these beautiful animals! Accidentally disturbed while climbing over the log it was in and it fell out.
Note: The animal was not handled or affected in any way. Was just taken photos of then left alone.
so good
Native scrub forest. At night. @dustinlamont is there enough detail on the RTA to ID C.Foliata?
Under rock on the beach (at the stone/coastal vegetation border)
1st image focus stacked.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Found on and by @slsfish
Collected from gravel in the Nihotupu stream. Videos included to show the movement of the large gills.
Scrub forest. At night.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night. under a fallen Nikau frond.
I like to break up my moth uploads with a few lizards, so I can easily see where each 'moth session' begins and ends. Here is a mother with a baby in tow in a Coprosma propinqua bush
under log
harassing a newly-emerged cockroach nymph under log
On the ground at night.
Still here a year later. Counted about a dozen webs, sighted three live spiders, plus one egg sac. Very small patch of pīngao here; the marram really seems to have squeezed in since last visit
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a damp decomposing wood.
I didn't expect this when I flipped the piece of wood. Carefully placed back after getting images.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. Focus stacked images.
Growing on car, abandoned in pasture.
Moulting sequence.
I don't want this one :)
This is a tricky one, maybe some sort of Rail?
A green chiton attached to a half crab. We observed this alien looking commensal beast while undertaking an intertidal survey on the reefs off Hawera. It made us jump when we first turned over the rock.
Is it a fish? Is it a slug? Is it a fishy anemone? I do not have a clue what this is!
It is about 30mm long and there were a few of them in the sand - outgoing tide nearly on the turn. Most were buried and only the "fan fin" was showing.
Resting on the wet sand, when the sand collapsed it arched it's face upwards (2nd and third photos) and seem to spawn capsule from somewhere - there are 2 floating in the 4th pic.
Totally hypnotic, by the time my sister-in-law and I carried on the brother had walked 2kms away from us!
Found under pine tree log on gravel path. It must of just molted because it is a white colouration and the molt is right next to it.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. At night.
Auckland Botanical Society field trip, 15 April 2023.
Native forest remnant.
Eggs.