Body length about 2mm.
Salticidae: Holoplatys planissima or H. complanata - Jumping Spider
sharing a Therevid meal
on the dry undersurface a very old fragment of a red beech trunk. I presume it has lasted sine the tree was felled, decades ago. .
Three tailed gecko!
This find was pretty high on the WTF scale. A single kereru foot in the middle of the track. Not a bone, a feather or a blood drop in sight.
Pale turquoise body, with white speckles and orange and white line along each side.
Approximately 3cm long
On kanuka branch with Korthalsella salicorniodes growing from it.
Found on pine tree bark
This was a very pretty spider indeed.
Blog posting here.
Lots of these on the sunny side of the house during summer.
Has anyone done a study of cicadas flying and obstacle avoidance ability? These guys seem to do headlong collisions with the fence, and then they can't back out - the third one here was still moving so I pulled it back out.
Sighting and photos (c) megamo.
Field Notes - found in cave
spotted on cutty grass near Urchin camp. Body approx 1.5 cm long
About 8 mm long. Posing nicely on a Griselinia leaf.
Found a Morepork trapped inside a chicken coop and assisted it’s escape
Oakley Creek Walkway. On a swamp maire (planted by the creek). Plenty of signs of larval development on the plant.
Adult moth emerged 21-22 Jan 2019 from a cocoon on an unmined Eucalyptus elata(?) leaf collected in the field on 20 Jan 2019.
Apologies for the "unique" perspective! The Kereru was feeding on Fuchsia (flowers?) in the canopy.
Noticed this near the seat at the top of the track.
Male bag moth (Liothula sp.) on the bag of a female, copulating, on a puriri tree.
Found in our vege garden after harvesting Kumara.
Miturgidae: Cheiracanthium stratioticum - Long-legged Sac spider ?
Agelenidae: Oramia littoralis
under rocks in intertidal zone
(NOTE: this observation previously mis-identified as Desidae: Otagoa nova)
Synotaxidae: Meringa leith ?
see Fig. 67, pg. 24; Forster, Platnick and Coddington 1990
Found in burkes pass, maybe Anoteropsis spider?
Location:
NZ, AK, Waiheke Island, Onetangi
Habitat:
Found in an outside sink.
Disturbed from a pile of mulch
Not my observation, but noticed it on the site http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11307026
Sharing as I could not find an example by searching Wairarapa or Stanwellia.
Matt Charlton a Tararua district earth works business owner was clearing forestry for a road at Pongaroa with a worker when he came across a very large spider "bigger than his hand"...
habitat: up in a Gorse bush inside an empty gorse seedpod, I was lucky to find it, I saw the empty seedpod and thought it was a moth, so I went closer and saw it was just a seedpod but it also had a spider in it!