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. Resisting the Phalacrocorax sulcirostris which was trying so hard to swallow it for a few minutes!
Ayr Reserve, Parnell, Auckland.
A group of 5 large springtails about 1 m above the ground, on the trunk of a dead tree.
Although this is my first observation for this genus, I may have ignored/overlooked it until now.
Auckland Domain.
One group of mites, on the underside of a rotten branch, on the ground, in mixed native/exotic bush.
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
Larval mantis shrimp found in plankton haul above seagrass beds on Tiri Island.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved bush, at night.
On Nikau leaf.
Observed with Andy Xiong
Collected in leaflitter from a pukatea/hinau/rewarewa swamp forest remnant in Woodlands Retirement Village.
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.
Uploaded on behalf of the collector, Kym Brennan
Small, fragile, 10cm tall. In leaf mould in heavy shade, lowland spring-fed monsoon forest, on drier part towards margin.
This is a normal gilled mushroom that has a very thin cap flesh, which splits radially (between the gills). Further drying lifts and twists the gill-segments into the flower shape in the image. The type specimen from Vanauatu had the same form on all fruitbodies, but the author was unsure whether this was an oddity, or the normal condition. The find of this Australian specimen shows that it is the norm, but it would be great to find young fruitbodies to understand exactly of the final form develops – at what point in development does it depart from a mushroom shape?
The species is Hausknechtia floriformis, a monotypic genus only described in 2020, with a single species described (by Anton Hausknecht) in 2003, previously only known from Vanuatu. I have been on the lookout for it, great to know it occurs in Australia too.
A link to the genus description: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11557-020-01606-3
A link to the original species description: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjwh767wJD0AhWQXisKHV56AnkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zobodat.at%2Fpdf%2FOestZPilz_12_0031-0040.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2rG4jlSDVwwBUmwAkpRYGM
unknown fungus in QLD
Identified as Gymnogaster boletoides on Bowerbird by Tim Cannon
Mycena sp. 'Nile River'. Went back after a tip from J. Cooper that these might be bioluminescent. They were emitting a faint glow.
Exposure times of 6-8 minutes at f/8 and ISO 3200 were reasonable. Some post-process tweaking.
Found in a washed up gastropoda. was alive for a couple days without much water!
Coastal, backdune, at night.
Camouflaging.
Washed up on the beach.
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.
@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!
First time to find velvet worm in my life.
The first photo is a homage to my friend @invertebratist.
Native beech forest in South Canterbury. Under a rotten log beside to walking track.
Probably this is 'Dunedin' peripatus.
15 pairs legs and brown based colors.
This is one of big happen in my life. I am very glad to found this crazy cool creature.
Under a driftwood on the beach.
Common on the fronds of Xiphophora gladiata (see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/20525499) in rock pools exposed at low tide mark. Not incidentally a moth but a brown seaweed associated with Xiphophora.
In beach drift on sand and gravel at low tide.
Growing upside down on an overhang of rock. At least 20mm long. Does this mean they're quite old?
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
3 individuals seen flying around.
On the dark, wet wall of the cave near the entrance.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
At night, under rocks in the small stream. Quite large- reaches 15+mm when actively moving.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
NEW ZEALAND AK
Site: 129 Laingholm Drive, Number: 00013
Trap: 1A-3B
Date: 19.VI.2007
Coll. J.T. Pusateri
Identification: Uropoda thorpei Kontschán, 2012.
Alpine, lakeside.
On the way to John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Observed with Colin Meurk (@ meurkc) and Marley Ford (@ marleyi) - Thanks!
25 mm long. 2nd image shows a second individual with its egg masses with embryos up to 500 microns in longest dimension deposited singly in capsules 550 x 505 microns. Eggs this large will develop ametamorphically into hatching juveniles.
Scanned from a print from 35 mm film I took in 2005. I originally posted these images (as Spurilla macleayi) on the Sea Slug Forum:
http://www.seaslugforum.net/find/14713
Alpine.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
At night. Focus stack of 2 images.
(two individuals)
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Size 0.1-0.2 mm. Almost impossible to see w/ naked eyes.
Alpine. Under a rotten log.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Small cephalapsid opistobrach found in quite large numbers in seagrass. 3-4mm long.
Alpine. Larva
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Alpine.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Alpine.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Te Noho Kotahitanga Marae Bioblitz.
In decomposing wood under native trees.
Found inside fibres of cocos nucifera
Eric Armishaw Park, Point Chevalier, Auckland.
Adults and nymphs common on oioi.
Coenocorypha barrierensis
North Island Snipe
Holotype
Collected prior to 1871
Collected by: Bennett
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/collections-research/collections/record/am_naturalsciences-object-125988
Alpine, lakeside.
On the way to John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
Observed with Colin Meurk (@ meurkc) and Marley Ford (@ marleyi) - Thanks!
Found amongst leaf litter caught in crevice between limestone boulders. Photographed on sunglasses. Only a few mm diameter. Locality known to support endangered landsnail species.
Native Kauri-podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night.
Larva
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. At night.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. At night.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. At night.
Auckland Botanical Society field trip, 17 June 2023.
Entered with the landowner's permission.
Native Kauri Podocarp-broadleaved forest.
Mostly planted and regenerating (?) native-ish bush around the stream, at night.