Reaching For The Sky...

Reaching For The Sky...

Frond unfurling...

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Optimistic Youngsters

Optimistic Youngsters

At the SI Optimist Champs last weekend in Queen Charlotte Sound.

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Chorus Cicada

Chorus Cicada

A cicada which had obviously lost its way... it was found sitting forlornly on a pillow in the bedroom and...

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Uploaded on Mar 1, 2012

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Tanguru Chafer

Tanguru Chafer

A small (about 20mm) native New Zealand scarab beetle, common in summertime.

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Uploaded on Feb 26, 2012  |  Map

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Monarch Chrysalis

Monarch Chrysalis

By the next morning, even after our garden had been battered overnight by gale force winds and 50mm rain,...

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Preparing for Pupation

Preparing for Pupation

The Monarch caterpillar readies itself for pupation. It has spun a cushion of silk by which it attaches...

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Neighbours...

Neighbours...

... a meet-the-neighbours gathering on a Swan Plant milkweed. A few hours after this photo was taken the...

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Chorus Cicada...

Chorus Cicada...

...the largest of the 40-ish cicada species found in New Zealand. Cicadas drink tree sap which they suck up...

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Chorus Cicada or Kihikihi

Chorus Cicada or Kihikihi

Noisy little beasties at this time of the year...

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Naked Lady

Naked Lady

...or Belladonna Lily (Amaryllis belladonna) Two of the buds (previous photo in my stream) had opened up into flowers by this afternoon...

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Uploaded on Feb 19, 2012  |  Map

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Belladonna Lily

Belladonna Lily

...or Naked Lady (Amaryllis belladonna)

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Uploaded on Feb 18, 2012  |  Map

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Swan Plant Flowers

Swan Plant Flowers

The Swan Plant is a popular milkweed grown in gardens all over New Zealand as a food source for the...

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Uploaded on Feb 12, 2012

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Honey Bee

Honey Bee

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Tropical jungle in miniature...

Tropical jungle in miniature...

...or that's what it looked like through the viewfinder to me :) In reality it's a close-up of a wild carrot seed-head.

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Uploaded on Feb 10, 2012

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Dahlia

Dahlia

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Lily

Lily

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Gazania

Gazania

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White-Fronted Tern

White-Fronted Tern

Leaning into the strong wind and trying hard not to get blown off its perch.

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Uploaded on Jan 22, 2012  |  Map

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