Garden friend! Pretty sure this one is native based on the blue spot on the inner leg, but insects aren’t my specialty…
May be the same individual as earlier, uncertain.
The bird was trying to catch some dinner - rabbits or pukeko.
Obscured due to proximity to research plots
Obscured due to proximity to research plots
Obscured due to proximity to research plots
Bright white hind wings with black lower margin. Type locality is Homer. Day flying moths near Gertrude Saddle / Black Lake
Moth maintaining a very strange posture.
Locally abundant by mat pohuehue at 1200-1480m ; Brian Lyford collecting some from roadside hostplant
Undescribed Black butterflies on Ohau Range at 1520m on scree and Myosotis flowers
At Ohau skifield base facility at 1400m feeding on nectar