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Asian Lady Beetle (Harmonia axyridis)Observer
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Brought into house via woodpile firewood. Half centimetre in size, not seen here before.
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Genus PercnodaimonObserver
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facing into a brisk wind and trembling its wings very fast
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Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee (Megachile rotundata)Observer
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ID by Otago Museum Dr Harris. Length of bee 8-9mm.
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Earthworms and Allies (Subclass Oligochaeta)Observer
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dead worm adjacent to a large worm cast, with ants on it
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Earthworms and Allies (Subclass Oligochaeta)Observer
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substantial worm casts common in the valley, this one half burying a Brachyglottis herb
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Wētā and King Crickets (Family Anostostomatidae)Observer
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A Weta foud dead by teh highway, trapped in a discarded beer bottle, associated photo gives detail of whole insect
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Wētā and King Crickets (Family Anostostomatidae)Observer
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Weta found dead in a bottle by the Highway, a common fate, associated photo is of its head only
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True Spittlebugs (Family Aphrophoridae)Observer
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Spittle bug on a Microtis orchid
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Spittlebugs and Froghoppers (Superfamily Cercopoidea)Observer
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Spiitle bug froth has another insect in it?
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Nurseryweb Spider (Dolomedes minor)Observer
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large sheet web on an Aciphylla aurea, spider not seen
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Observer
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A ground spider amongst rocks and herbs on a dry ridge, Leucopogon fraseri herb gives scale
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Novaranea queribundaObserver
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A spider on an Aciphylla aurea amongst tussock grassland
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Subfamily AsilinaeObserver
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Robber Flies mating in eth same large, flowering Chionochloa rigida that held a number of Cicadas, see photos this site.
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New Zealand Cutworm (Ichneutica mutans)Observer
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A moth on our parked car early afternoon, site close to Snow Tussocks
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Genus IchneuticaObserver
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A moth which found its way onto our parked vehicle early afternoon, site close to snow tussocks
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Orange-spotted Ladybird Beetle (Coccinella leonina)Observer
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on Bulbinella flowers
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Two-spotted Lady Beetle (Adalia bipunctata)Observer
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on Russell Lupin by Lindis Highway
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Short-horned Grasshoppers and Locusts (Superfamily Acridoidea)Observer
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Short-horned Grasshoppers and Locusts (Superfamily Acridoidea)Observer
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Small grasshopper with rabbit dirt at back for scale - on Hieracium leaves
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Short-horned Grasshoppers (Family Acrididae)Observer
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very small grasshopper eating pollen (?) on a Hieracium flower
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Short-horned Grasshoppers (Family Acrididae)Observer
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Very small grasshopper eating pollen (?) on a Hieracium flower
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Short-horned Grasshoppers (Family Acrididae)Observer
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Very small grasshopper, with rabbit dirt at left for scale
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Short-horned Grasshoppers (Family Acrididae)Observer
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Very small grasshopper, on dead tussock material, on side of 1423m hill in Lindis Pass Scenic Reserve
