(C1-10), 20230905. Possibly juvenile Garden wolf spider. Approx 5 mm x 4 mm.
(B3-7) 20230905. Approx 20 x 10 mm. Top four eyes in straight row across head.
(A6-4, A7-5, A4-4)
(A3-8) 20230829. Small spider with mottled brown abdomen and black cephalothorax. Long transparent legs.
(A3-3) 20230829. Had built a web in the trap, not bothered by the presence of 6 Garden Wolf Spiders below it. Trap was a 450ml cup.
(B3-1, C3-5) 20230822 and 20230829. (A4-3) 20230509.
This looks like Steatoda capensis has taken down a larger (meaner) spider. Anew situation in my book. The squashed S.capensis beside the corpse was alive when I arrived.
There are lots of magpie moth caterpillars feeding on the wild Senecio quadridentatus (and Senecio glomeratus) wild on the gravels of the carpark on Armagh Street north of New Regent Street. I've never seen this many of these in August before.
Possibly immature and/or female.
In a bed of cultivated Dietes grandiflora (see http://naturewatch.org.nz/observations/964319, association probably incidental), in a garden plot outside building 733.
These two were found under flat rocks alongside a tumbling stream in a very narrow gorge/cleft (approx. 9 metres wide), completely shaded and chilly all day.
They are similar and were found within 2 metres of each other, so I'm assuming they are the same species. The 1st one (shots 1, 2 & 3) was 11.5 mm, and the 2nd 7 mm, possibly recently moulted.