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.
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.
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.
Caught indoors during the day. F.L. 2.5 mm.
On the dark, wet wall of the cave near the entrance.
John Child bryophyte and lichen workshop 2023.
At night.
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.
Auckland Entomological Society field trip to Mataia Homestead, 28 October 2023.
Native Kauri-podocarp-broadleaved forest / Manuka, Kanuka scrub, at night.
Attracted to light trap (thanks @dr_robert)
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a decomposing log. Juvenile
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night. Focus stack of 21 frames.
I turned over a rock at sunset and saw glowing, half an hour later with head torch on I couldn’t see the glowing, though possibly just overwhelmed by torch light, didn’t notice anything thick growing on the rock
On moist ground next to the glowworm cave mouth.
Lots of these leeches were retrieved from samples of treated effluent at a wastewater treatment plant. Not ranged in size up to around 3 or 4cm.
With Diaspididae species.
Length(Diameter) approx. 5 mm.
Found attached on leaves of a planted Yucca.
ID is tentative. Could be something else.
Tiger beetle larvae
Renocilla bollandi
Named after the legend- Bob Bolland
Found : Maeda point, Okinawa-JP
Depth: 95feet living on a Scorpionfish ( Scorpaenopsis diabolus, Tanaka 1917 )
Fish Size : 70-80mm
Isopod size: 15mm -20mm
More info about this beautiful species https://okinawanaturephotography.com/parasitic-isopods-of-the-ryukyu-islands/
Native Kauri-podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night.
Predating Serpho sp.:https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189903105
Tahuna Torea Nature Reserve, Auckland. Under wood debris at back of beach.
Obs for the right ootheca (egg mass). The left one looks like a South African ootheca (Miomantis caffra)? Both on the underside of a magnolia leaf.
Varicorbula yokoyamai Habe, 1949 from Taean, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
While single valves of this species are seldom found in the beach drift in Taean, I was fortunate enough to discover a pair once during high tide.
It was a surprise for me when I first found it in Taean as this species has been officially reported exclusively from Jeju Island
Collected, photographed by Doyeon Kim
No idea, was closely analysing some triplefin eggs and saw a bit of purple, maybe something fishy?
Trying to id the hitchiker. Looks like some kind of crustacean?
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. Focus stacked images.
Upper intertidal, on the sandstone platform covered with Ulva sp.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. Coastal. Juvenile?
Approx 3mm.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. Focus stacked image. Fruiting