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The #Christchurch Botanic Gardens in New Zealand were founded in 1863. On 52 acres they showcase a large variety of exotic and native plants of New Zealand. How did you like it? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Christchurch/#botanic
The #Christchurch Botanic Gardens in New Zealand were founded in 1863. On 52 acres they showcase a large variety of exotic and native plants of New Zealand. How did you like it? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Christchurch/#botanic
Little-humped spiders have reached Oxford! #iNaturalist user flamingtofunz posted a photo yesterday.
This Australian spider was found in NZ in 2016 in #Christchurch and has spread southeast (Little River by 2022), south (Leeston by 2024), north (Pegasus by 2024), and now west to Oxford.
It's a small, distinctive social spider. A few 100 spiders work together to build large messy webs that catch a lot of insects.
iNaturalist NZLittle humped spider (Philoponella congregabilis)Social House Spider from Oxford 7430, New Zealand on March 16, 2025 at 03:23 PM by Richard Smale. Small quick spider with 'pyramid like' abdomen, light sides, dark middle.
Ok, local #Ōtautahi #Christchurch friends. Please help.
Support carer was out for two weeks with COVID, now gone to Auckland for another week. We're struggling.
We need help with laundry, dishes, cleaning, possibly cooking and general child distraction.
Can pay $28/hr. DM me if you're free and able.
#Christchurch in New Zealand is important for the exploration of #Antarctica . The International Antarctic Centre is a base facility for Antarctica exploration and it has a very good museum. #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Christchurch/#antarctic
Today was my first bike ride since catching covid for a second time (watch out, it's out there).
A big bonus was finding this kōtuku (white heron) in one of the native wetlands restored along Sparks Road. Wow! To put that in perspective, I have biked this route from Christchurch to Lincoln over 2,600 times since 2003, counting birds each ride, and this is my first kōtuku. It's also the 1st on iNat in southwestern #Christchurch.
Welcome back kōtuku!
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/263361889
#nz #birds #Ōtautahi
Christchurch Hospital is under pressure. Their ED department is asking people to seek medical treatment elsewhere - unless it's life-threatening. Some patients have been flown to Dunedin.
RNZ · Struggling Christchurch ED asks patients go elsewhere unless it's 'life-threatening'
The #Christchurch Botanic Gardens in New Zealand were founded in 1863. On 52 acres they showcase a large variety of exotic and native plants of New Zealand. How did you like it? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Christchurch/#botanic
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If you're not sure which cicada you're hearing, you can record them with the #iNaturalist app and a keen entomologist will tell you which species you've got. It will be interesting to see how much further the clapping cicada spreads as the climate warms, and how our local cicadas deal with this, and whether any other northern cicadas make there way down here.
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Along the New Brighton coast and only since about 2016, we've also got the clapping cicada, *Amphipsalta cingulata*. When Thursday's Waitangi Day hikoi reached New Brighton Pier, I heard a distinctly different cicada calling. It's got a pulsing, ascending rattle. It has spread down into the South Island from the North Island this century, presumably in response to the warming climate.
https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/342370-Amphipsalta-cingulata
#insects #nz #cicadas #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
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In Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, but not Christchurch city, there's the chirping cicada *Amphipsalta strepitans*. I informally call it the maraca cicada because it reminds me of someone shaking a maraca. I don't yet understand why this species is not in the city itself. It cuts out at around the edge of the housing in the Port Hills.
https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/342372-Amphipsalta-strepitans
#insects #nz #cicadas #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
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In Christchurch city and the Port hills and Banks Peninsula, we've got the Kihikihi Wawā or Chorus Cicada, *Amphipsalta zelandica*. Its calls sound like pulsing static. These are the cicadas that make a cacophany from the trees of the botanic gardens and Hagley Park. They are abundant and all of them singing together is *loud*.
https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/81881-Amphipsalta-zelandica
#insects #nz #cicadas #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
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Ōtautahi-Christchurch is finally starting to feel like summer, with the cicadas turning up the volume from the trees.
On Thursday I was reminded that we've now got three large, loud cicada species calling in the city. They all sound distinctly different when you get your ear in.
One is a recent arrival from the North Island and so far is only along the coast of the city.
I've put recordings of each in the following posts.
Yesterday I saw a pigeon on a Mini on a wall.
https://inaturalist.nz/observations/260854468
#birds #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #UrbanNature
iNaturalist NZFeral Pigeon (Variety Columba livia domestica)Feral Pigeon from Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand on February 6, 2025 at 11:13 AM by Jon Sullivan. A pigeon on a Mini on a wall.
Here are some photos I took at today's Waitangi Day hikoi in Ōtautahi. Many hundreds of people marched 10 km from Victoria Square to New Brighton pier in support of mana whenua and te tiriti.
There was a fantastic, positive buzz in the air.
My full res photos are on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54310347724/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54309235867/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54310363548/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/54310116041/
Here are some things I saw in Ōtautahi City, NZ, this afternoon.
I particularly like the effort someone went to to make the sign that says "Duck Nesting, Please Keep Clear" which they put on a tree by the river.
I also like that some of the sticker art is containing helpful, inclusive messages like "Trans are Taonga" and "Don't Panic, Organize!".
We're all in this together and we've got to look out for one another (ducks included).
#Christchurch in New Zealand is important for the exploration of #Antarctica . The International Antarctic Centre is a base facility for Antarctica exploration and it has a very good museum. #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Christchurch/#antarctic
Went to Ken's Mart the other day and they were out of mugicha. Anyone seen it in stock elsewhere, #Ōtautahi #Christchurch?