Hills Rd Franklin, Dec 2008 Excursion and end-of-year barbeque at Neil Klaer's property.
The party on a walk through tall regrowth blue-gum forest up-hill from Neil's house.
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Heartberry, Aristotelia peduncularis.
Green Bird-orchid Chiloglottis cornuta.
A siphonotid millipede, not yet formally named, but temporarily known as 'AcuMes'.
Callidircaea venusta, a false darkling beetle on dry fallen dogwood.
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A Pentatomidae bug, Notius depressus, laying a green egg on fireweed (Senecio linearifolius).
Amaurobioidea spider, looking very grey because it has just moulted.
Larva of the chrysomelid blue flea beetle Altica pagana, on Acaena novae-zelandiae.
Entoloma rodwayi.
Psathyrella (Lacrymaria ) asperospora.
Two stages of Aseroe rubra, the stink-horn fungus.
Early stage (left); and fully emerged (right), showing its red 'tentacles' and smelly brown spore-bearing slime
Photos by Lynne Forster, Geoff Fenton