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Cockroaches and Termites (Order Blattodea)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Fairly common, light bround body, changes colour half way down the body.
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New Zealand Mantis (Orthodera novaezealandiae)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Probably dead from some months. Colour faded a bit.
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False Blister Beetles (Family Oedemeridae)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Found quite a few of these in the last few weeks, just a guess that this is the right species.
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Large Hover Fly (Melangyna novaezelandiae)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Terrible Photo....has a slightly stripey abdomen. Might take it in to work and see if the experts can shed some light!
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Genus LeptotarsusObserver
susan_waughDescription
Not sure which crane fly, it had very stripey wings, and there are absolutely tonnes of them around at present (last 2-3 weeks).
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Crab Spiders (Family Thomisidae)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Hopefully in the right ball park here, bright green, had a very squat posture, and its front legs were bunched up and looked very crab-pincer like.
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Brown Evening Moth (Gellonia dejectaria)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Crikey, there are quite a few brown and slightly stripey moths out there in the world! This has patterns on both wingds, which seem to run laterally across the wings, plus the little windows on the outer upper wing tips.
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Large Crane Flies (Family Tipulidae)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Not sure which Crane fly, but it seems to fit this group, massive legs, two delicate wings.
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Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)Observer
susan_waughDescription
According to Tony Wills, also a buff-tailed...
White(er) tail, much smaller than the Buff-tailed shown for comparison. Theres also a very much smaller one on some of my flowers..so figuring this is the Garden Bumble, but maybe its the Large Garden Bumble?
,..
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Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Comparison with the other bumble found on the same day
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European Mistletoe (Viscum album)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Closeup of mistletoe in tree, near the river Cher,
Centre, France.
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European Mistletoe (Viscum album ssp. album)Observer
susan_waughDescription
More mistletoe than host, a beautiful morning light along the river Cher at St Florent.
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New Zealand Giraffe Weevil (Lasiorhynchus barbicornis)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Same beastie, better pictures...and in the same locality...perhaps the same individual...
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Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Having studied the options for a bit I think this is also a buff-tailed bumble - workers are smaller and less yellow in the butt than the queen seen elsewhere at the same time on the same patch of garden
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Buff-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Not sure if it's this one or the white tailed bumble...an immense bee!
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Great Pond Snail (Lymnaea stagnalis)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Identified by Dr Bruce Marshall from Photos. It was in the pond at Otari Wilton's Bush reserve,
Looking quite at home with the pond weed and goldfish
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Vagrant Spiders (Genus Uliodon)Observer
susan_waughDescription
In my laundry, looking spidery. Given a free ride to a plant outside.
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Stoneflies (Order Plecoptera)Observer
susan_waughDescription
On rocks near the river, the moulted exoskeletons of many of these little creatures were along the river back.
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Lycaena Butterflies (Genus Lycaena)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Found on ragwort
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Capebells (Genus Wahlenbergia)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Growing in a meadow
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Lycaena Butterflies (Genus Lycaena)Observer
susan_waughDescription
On ragwort
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Cinnabar Moth (Tyria jacobaeae)Observer
susan_waughDescription
Pastel pink-red butterfly along river meadows, where there were plenty of furry black and black-and-yellow stripey caterpillars on the ragwort. Are these biological control agents?
