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Newmarket Park, Auckland. On the underside of a large rock.

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

weird

Attracted to lights at night.
With fungi Hesperomyces coccinelloides on it:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/159954218

The flaky part on a coccinellid that was attracted to lights at night.
(Thanks @stephen_thorpe for pointing out that it was a fungi)

Ants amongst mass of springtails

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest.
Found by digging out the Cordyceps sinclairii (https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/151320642).

Fieldwork with @ lloyd_esler, @ predomalpha and @ fiestykakapo.
Native beech forest.

Washed up among algae.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a damp decomposing wood.

SL: 4.4mm SL: 4.1mm

prolongata?

Found beneath plastic sacking lying on the ground under native bush and exotic trees, beside a small stream.

Found on rotting vegetation in water near bank.

Native mixed podocarp / broadleaf forest, resting on a tree trunk at night.

Native mixed podocarp / broadleaf forest, resting on a tree trunk at night.

very small (~5 mm)

Between the base of the leaf and the trunk of a Nikau Palm Tree.

Attracted to lights at night.

Fieldwork with @emma_brockes.
At night. Attracted to lights (UV trap) which we had set in a garden surrounded by native Podocarp-broadleaved forest.

Freshwater / aquatic.
Under a stone, rather clear water.

Freshwater / aquatic.
Under a stone, rather clear water.

Not at all sure. Lots of these hard, white, small, crusty lumps on a piece of mussel beard

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest.
Attracted to light, which I placed on a boulder by the river at night.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest.
Attracted to light, which I placed on a boulder by the river at night.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest.
Attracted to light, which I placed on a boulder by the river at night.

Came to our tent on the campground by the native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. Very adorable.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, on Veronica sp.

Exploring with @invertebratist

Caught in a surface plankton haul off Tiri Island in the Hauraki Gulf.
The long and feathery bristles are there to create resistance to sinking out of the photic zone where its algae food is found.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a damp decomposing wood.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, on a tree trunk.

Attracted to lights at night.

Attracted to lights at night.

In sand underneath a rock in the high intertidal zone.

High intertidal, common in sandstone rock pools.

Upper intertidal, under a moist smooth boulder of sandy mudstone sitting on sand.

Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a damp decomposing wood.

This observation is of a (small) moth larva feeding on the inside of a Greenhood Orchid flower (Pterostylis banksii).

Pustular triton at A-Frame

Collected in the wrack line during the PM low tide.