one species a day

By linnaeus

One species each day (from my backyard)

Way too late again. I've been busy trying to level the floor all day, and only had time for some photos after I had cleaned up the dining room. While looking for a new species to photograph, I heard a hedgehog, but it took a while before I saw it. They usually curl up, so would be an easy model, but this one lifted itself high up on its legs and ran away into the neighbour's backyard. Then I tried a few other fern leaves and spiders until I remembered the stick insects of which there always a few  chewing on the Coprosma leaves. There were more than I expected, green ones and light brown ones, even on the ferns underneath. All still pretty small for the time of the year, about 50 mm long. This one is probably a Tectarchus salebrosus.

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