Locality: NEW ZEALAND AK, suburb of Saint Johns, University of Auckland Tamaki Campus (East)
Habitat: Sophora. Cultivated tree on lawn by building 733. Beating.
Identification: Ectopsocus petersi Smithers, 1978
Found under a Pseudopanax leaf.
On Sophora microphylla
Melville Park. A row of three plants, profusely flowering.
I spotted a beached-wrecked bird carcass while patrolling Muriwai Beach. My friend, Ariel Wijaya, who I was walking with when I spotted the bird, then delivered it to Ian Mclean of Birds of New Zealand. Photos were taken and reviewed, and the general consensus was Little Bronze Cuckoo. Small, reddish-brownish bird, with rufous, black, and white undertail coverts. The bird is currently at the Auckland Museum and will be prepared as a specimen. This bird is native to Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and Australia. New record for New Zealand.
although grossly disappointed I didn't see any Campbell Island Jumping Moths, at least these guys were all over the place tonguing the megaherbs
Beaten from a mix of Mingimingi, Manuka, and Geothermal Kanuka.
Absolutely beast of a specimen… this shell makes me weak looking at it lol. Unfortunately not mine, belongs to a friend and is an absolute monster at 140mm. One of the largest I have seen in private collections, exceptional live taken shell of Honduras by submersible in the early 2000’s. Has some small imperfections along the slit but for its size, anything goes. One of the classic rarities and was illustrated in S. Peter Dance’s “50 rare shells” book as the front cover species. Still to this day one of the rarest and most sought after pleurotomarids there is
Single individual next to the track. Location is approximate as not georefernced with my phone.
I saw this while going up kilimanjaro, no idea what it is.