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Berm out front of 22 Alberta St, Point Chevalier, Auckland 1022. On a Melaleuca sp. (Callistemon-type) street tree.

Seddon Fields, Western Springs, Auckland 1022. By the bridge over Motions Creek to Jaggers Bush.

Under small grove of Eucalyptus. Same site as this observation https://inaturalist.nz/observations/81004957

Common, in understory of montane beech forest

On decaying log under montane broadleaved forest

Amazing looking thing. Never seen anything like it

Street planting of Lantana montevidensis, out front of 54 Huia Rd, Point Chevalier, Auckland 1022.

Occasional, in alpine cushionfield

Occasional, in alpine cushionfield

Rare, on sandy beach

Occasional, in stony dryland herbfield

Deconica baylisiana, growing on silty substrate in shallow gully draining road amongst short turf of grasses and sedges, confined to this site

Gynoplistia magnifica - female

female flagellum with 16 joints, first 8 bearing short projections

Abrotanella, uncommon, one plant found growing under boulder on track

Syrphidae: Eristalis tenax - Drone Fly, female, 16 mm

Calostoma rodwayi on soil under mountain beech (Fuscospora cliffortioides). Specimen photo DAO_0037

Tachinidae: Peremptor kumaraensis
Quite a few seen on the boardwalk trail and in the arboretum.