Great Southern Bioblitz 2024
Mid intertidal, found among oysters on the concrete next to the boat ramp.
Originally spotted by Samuel Amaris.
Manukau Harbour coastline/seashore below Taunton Terrace Reserve, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600. Subcortical on a rotting pine trunk. Several individuals observed.
Although this is my first observation for this species, I have ignored it until now.
Manukau Harbour coastline/seashore below Taunton Terrace Reserve, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland 0600. Subcortical on a rotting pine trunk. Common.
Manukau Harbour seashore at Blockhouse Bay/Green Bay, Auckland. Subcortical on a dead pine tree, overhanging the seashore.
Manukau Harbour seashore at Sandy Bay-Flounder Bay, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland. Under bark of a pine tree, fallen on to the seashore.
Common leaf spot on pohutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa) - I assume it is this taxon. Specimen collected.
Coastal. Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
At different life stages on Pison spinolae larva. ID by Darren Ward
Intertidal, under a rock.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Perhaps 2mm, observed crawling along pot surface within Conservancy of Flowers.
Tried to see if there were "teeth" in the aperture but couldn't seem to manage it..
Regenerating plants at the December 2014 fire site.
Hakea is a scourge around Cornwallis and parts of the Huia coastline.
Maybe a Polyipnus? Quite decomposed. Juvenile.
Very tiny that we only saw it from the camera when we were taking photos of a fungi. And then 80% of the time our camera lost it. ~1mm I think?
I do not know anything about it. Very little information online. Thanks to computer vision this is my best guess
the fungi on the last photo:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/223904394
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. Under a decomposing wood.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, at night.
On a carabid.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest. On the underside of a fallen Nikau frond.
On ''Shag Rock''.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Multiple parasitic mites are visible on the neck of both of the Chatham Island Shag pair.
Observation for the host (Chatham Island Shag): https://inaturalist.org/observations/239617894
Little white specks that were moving, on an object inside the house. These were the big ones, but I think still less than 1 mm. Could they be dust mites?
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.
Atkinson Park, Zigzag Track. On Astelia hastata. An ant is in attendance (probably Prolasius advena).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
It is really really tiny, found on a small decaying wood bark. I really like the photo but unfortunately unable to ID.
Any help with the ID will be appreciated.
Please see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/214155166 for another one that I found on the same wood bark
Coastal.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Exhibition Drive, Titirangi, Auckland.
Trackside vertical rock face, at a seepage.
21.13×16.67 mm. 2019-0320D-8
Intertidal, found on rock. Live taken.
Native Podocarp-broadleaved forest, under a decomposing log.
Larva.
iNatting with @emma_brockes.
Both length 4 mm when extended.
Low intertidal. Found by sieving through red algae and brown algae (Image #5 #6) growing on a wall of a shallow crevice on the reef.
Placida?
Coastal (shore of an island within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Fieldwork with @ lloyd_esler, @ predomalpha and @ fiestykakapo.
Weeds.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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.
Within a farmland.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Locally common on seasonally flooded ground on lake margin. Growing in peaty sand with Apodasmia similis, Ophioglossum coriaceum and various mosses and liverworts.
A problematic population. Some plants corresponding to Ophioglossum coriaceum and others intermediate between that species and O. petiolatum. I am (for now) placing the larger plants into O. petiolatum (I have seen similar plants accepted as this from Raoul Island, and Te Paki by New Zealand Pteridologists). I suspect, that for many populations ascribed to O. petiolatum in reality we are dealing with hybrid swarms between something like O. petiolatum and O. coriaceum - we have some evidence to support this from cytological studies which found that of 8 New Zealand populations attributed to O. petiolatum, only one was functional, all the others produced sterile spores. Notably most grew close to O. coriaceum - as at this site.
Placement in O. petiolatum (for now) for most of the plants seen here is based on the size of the fertile spike which ranged between 14 and 20 sporangia pairs. However, the sterile blade is more typical of O. coriaceum. See also https://inaturalist.nz/observations/199256092 for an observation of the same population made on 14 February 2024.
Voucher: P.J. de Lange CH4548, UNITEC 14417
Hand-picked from a collected soil sample.
Coastal (shore of an island within the lagoon).
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
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,
Coastal. Flowering.
Observed during a unitec trip, with @ pjd1.
Beaten from flowering Titoki (Alectryon excelsus).
Under a piece of wood resting on garden soil. Male
Just starting to flower. Probably original trees but now part of a farm shelter belt.
Honeycomb Hill Cave.
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.