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Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night.
On a carabid.

Gittos Domain, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600.

Rust on Isolepis distigmatosa.

Associated with a seepage, just behind Sandy Bay.

Puriri Drive, Campbell Park, Greenlane, Auckland. Ovisacs on rimu.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest

Coastal (shore of an island within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.

Fieldwork with @ lloyd_esler, @ predomalpha and @ fiestykakapo.
Weeds.

Sub-adult female hiding under water. She jumped into the stream after being disturbed by light. Holding on to sticks at bottom of stream to avoid floating back to surface.

Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1. Need to double check the location

Coastal (shore of a rock within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.

Observation for the parasitic mites (Ixodidae?):
https://inaturalist.org/observations/239617895

Alpine.

John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.

Coastal (shore of an island within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.

I expect this is the very same tree in @stephen_thorpe 's observation: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/68934903

Found in shell sand at home.
First one for me, juvenile.

I think this is a D. squmifera, but not 100% sure,

Just starting to flower. Probably original trees but now part of a farm shelter belt.

first in 10+ years, awesome little thing and my first mega!!

THE VALIANT AND TIRELESS WANDERER OF THE NORTH GRAAAAAAAA

Native podocarp-broadleaved forest /
wetland.
5 seen, more than 20 heard within 3 hrs. Pretty amazing.

Native podocarp-broadleaved forest /
wetland.
5 seen, more than 20 heard within 3 hrs. Pretty amazing.

Coastal.
It caught a Scolecenchelys breviceps, however swallowing it seemed almost impossible.

Coastal stream (brackish area)

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night. Freshwater. Bioluminescent (only after being touched)

12 Photos. At about 1,700 metres a.s.l in the Fox Range between Sam Peak and Crozet Peak. First time I've ever seen a green peripatus

found on
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205608500

Native Podocarp-broadleaved bush, at night.
On Nikau leaf.
Observed with Andy Xiong

Berm out front of 12 Heaphy St, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600. On Cerastium glomeratum.

Although this is my first observation for this species, I may have ignored/overlooked it until now.

With egg spirals. Several adults on the same blade.

unknown fungus in QLD
Identified as Gymnogaster boletoides on Bowerbird by Tim Cannon

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest (remnant)

Found in a washed up gastropoda. was alive for a couple days without much water!

Coastal, backdune, at night.
Camouflaging.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved bush, at night. Under rotten log.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved bush, at night. Under rotten log.

Under rock on the beach (at the stone/coastal vegetation border)
1st image focus stacked.

so good

@sdjbrown Here is an image of it burrowing. That other photo was the only half-decent image I managed to capture before it descended into the grains of sand!