Photos / Sounds
What
Horse and Deer Flies (Family Tabanidae)Observer
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Found on white plastic laundry basket.
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True Slime Molds (Class Myxomycetes)Observer
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Yellow slime mould with small wet lumps, rather like custard.
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Ichneumon lotatoriusObserver
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About 15 mm long. The upper abdomen was orange like the legs, but the lower half was black.
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Small-flowered Catchfly (Silene gallica)Observer
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Small plant in flower. Note the metallic blue thing on or against one of the flowers- a fly of some sort? It's very small.
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House Flies and Allies (Family Muscidae)Observer
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A medium-sized fly, darkish in appearance, and with subtle stripes on its thorax.
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Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)Observer
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Miners Lettuce, found under pine trees on top of the northern cliff above the Waimakariri Gorge Bridge