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Globular Springtails (Order Symphypleona)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
I used the beaker, lid, detergent and sodium benzoate for setting up a pitfall trap one week in my garden to do the invertebrates observation.
I just find one in my beaker and it is a kind of springtails but I don't the detail name. This species is very interesting that it has circular body and a pair of long tentacle.
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Plump Springtails (Order Poduromorpha)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
I used the beaker, lid, detergent and sodium benzoate for setting up a pitfall trap one week in my garden to do the invertebrates observation.
This species is a kind of spingtails and there has a large number in my beaker.
Onychiuridae have 3 pairs of short legs and 1 pair of short tentacle.
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Smooth Springtails (Family Isotomidae)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
I used the beaker, lid, detergent and sodium benzoate for setting up a pitfall trap one week in my garden to do the invertebrates observation.
This is a kind of springtail not sure the detail name, and there have a lots of this species in my beaker.
It has 4 pairs of legs and 1 pair of long tentacle.
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Common Hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
I put the tracking tunnel with peanut butter in the backyard where has long grass and some shrubs for three nights to test that attract mammals to here and leave their footprint.
And I found some clear footprint with ink on the half of card that look like Hedgehog.
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Hall's Totara (Podocarpus laetus)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This tree has red trunk that is special. The leaves are glossy green, alternated and has soomth edge. I think these leaves look like bamboo leaves just smaller.
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Miro (Pectinopitys ferruginea)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This tree looks like cedar. The leaves are thin and opposited. And its green and hhas smooth edge.
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Coprosma (Genus Coprosma)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This plant has small leaves and deep green color. The leaves' form are oviod and has smooth edge. There is no fruit o this plant.
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Kahikatea (Dacrycarpus dacrydioides)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This tree also has very small and thin leaves, they are opposited. The branches are dropping. Some new leaves are light green, and others are deep green to dark.
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Coprosma (Genus Coprosma)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This plant has very small leaves, and its smooth, ovoid and glossy light green color. It can't sure the name and looks like shrub or small tree.
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Hinau (Elaeocarpus dentatus)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The leaves are long, slight and alternated, the color is light green. And the edge of leaves is a little serated. I don't know what is this plant.
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Rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The leaves are very small, spirally arranged, awl-shaped. The branches are droopping, and leaves are deep green color.
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Dicots (Class Magnoliopsida)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The plant has very small leaves and black trunk. I don't know the name of this plant.
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Mountain Beech (Nothofagus cliffortioides)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The tree is very high to observe its leaves. The leaves are small and green. In addition, there have many moss or fungus grow on the tree trunk.
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Mountain Beech (Nothofagus cliffortioides)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The tree is mountain beech, and the leaves are small, alternately arranged, ovoid, and smooth margins. In addition, there have many moss or fungus grow on the tree brunk.
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New Zealand Broadleaf (Griselinia littoralis)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The leaves of this tree are alternate, leathery and glossy green. I haven't seen any fruit on this tree.
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Subgenus FuscosporaObserver
lulu_yanDescription
The tree is very large and high, I can't see the form of leaves. The trunk is blackcolor, and there has honeydew.
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Himalayan Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster simonsii)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The leaves of tree is smooth and glossy, has deep green color. And the tree have some light green fruits.
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Marble Leaf (Carpodetus serratus)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
It is like red beech, but the leaves color is deeper. And the edge of is serrated and leaves are alternation.
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Mataī (Prumnopitys taxifolia)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
The tree looks like a kind of cedar, the leaves are opposite, small and thin. The color of leaves is almost deep green, and some bronzing.
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Common Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This tree also is a kind of pine tree, and the leaves are shorter. The color of leaves is light green, and no fruit on the tree.
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Monterey Pine (Pinus radiata)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This tree looks like pine tree, but not sure its common name. The needle leaves are hardy, and no fruit on the tree.
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European Blackberry Complex (Section Rubus)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
This tree looks like unhealthy that maybe leaves ate by insects and have not enough space to growth. The edge of leaves is serrated and grain is clearly
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South Island Fantail (Rhipidura fuliginosa ssp. fuliginosa)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
I saw the some fantail birds close to a river in riccarton bush, and they always flew in pairs.
Fantail has keen action and flew quickly.
Their tail is very beauty when it open like a fun that is black and white.
They liked stay on lawn by the river and nearby plants with some small fruits.
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Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
I saw the blackbird near to a river in riccarton bush, and it always rounded the English Oak and other plants.
The blackbird didn't affect from human too much, so I could take photo clearer.
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Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
I saw the bird that its whole body is black in riccarton bush, and it was too high to take photo clearly.
This bird stayed on the tree with many small black fruits.
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Small White (Pieris rapae)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
Found it on the flowering shrubs in the Botanical Garden, and it was white and like the cabbage white butterfly.
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Small White (Pieris rapae)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
Found it on the flowering shrubs in the Botanical Garden, and it was white and like the cabbage white butterfly.
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Small White (Pieris rapae)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
Found it on the flowering shrubs in the Botanical Garden, and it was white and like the cabbage white butterfly.
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Small White (Pieris rapae)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
Found it on the flowering shrubs in the Botanical Garden, and it was white and like the cabbage white butterfly.
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Small White (Pieris rapae)Observer
lulu_yanDescription
Found it on the flowering shrubs in the Botanical Garden, and it was white and like the cabbage white butterfly.
