First exquisita for the season. I wasn't even looking for moths. On school camp with my daughter and it was sitting on the wall beside the kitchen door yesterday morning. There was a handful of mature Olearia down by a nearby pond. Another Southland site.
An enjoyable night in peninsula bush with @possumsend before the cold wind drove us home.
Hard resin like capsules stuck hard to a Muehlenbeckia australis stem.
Skink found inside house (it was rescued and released outside). McCanns or southern grass skink?
Only my 3rd observation of this species in five summers, all three between 24.1 and 11.2. Only stayed for a few seconds.
Very distinctively scalloped outer (or lower, in photo) edge of upper wing.
Est to be just over 20mm across widest part of wings (photo 2).
Deserted rifleman nest in a nest box, contains 8 eggs