AngelaAutumn clean-up tomorrow at Opawa Community Gardens, if anyone wants to go. 10-12pm. #Otautahi #Christchurch
Mark Darbyshire🌱🏳️🌈Looks like there was an event on at Te Kaha this evening but they're now having their first ever fire drill! #Ōtautahi #Christchurch
Jon SullivanAfter recent media stories about butterfly declines in New Zealand, centred around one transect in Nelson, it's heartening to see in Stacey Lewthwaite's graphs that kahukura and monarch butterflies have not declined around Christchurch. That's in the last two decades along my 78 km of transects.
#EcologicalMonitoring #butterflies #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ
On Sunday 26 April, I'll be leading another nature walk in Ōtautahi-Christchurch, this time from the Sign of the Takahe to the Botanic Gardens. That's part of the four-day City Nature Challenge.
It's a terrific walk designed to take us through many of the city's nature filled nooks and crannies.
Again, all welcome. We leave from the Sign of the Takahe (by the bus stop for the No 1 Cashmere bus) at 9:45 am.
If you don't have the time to commit to the full walk, you can join us for the first part walking to the South Library, or from the South Library to the Art Gallery, or for the final stint from the Art Gallery to the Botanic Gardens.
Below are some photos from the previous two years we've done this walk.
https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/takahe-to-taone-hikoi-2
#CityNatureChallenge #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #NZ #NatureWalk #iNaturalistNZ
If you're in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ, next Sunday, and are keen for a nature walk, well, you're in luck!
As part of the city's annual Walking Festival, Noah Fenwick and I will be leading a walk/explore around Waikākāriki Horseshoe Lake. We're two local iNaturalist fanatics and ecologists and are keen to see what we can find around this restored city wetland.
The walk starts at 10 am and will go for about three hours.
All welcome!
https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/nature-walk-through-waikakariki-horseshoe-lake
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations?place_id=109378&subview=map
Of the flies I saw today, this one is my favourite. It's the ngaro tara or three-lined Hover Fly (*Helophilus seelandicus*), a New Zealand endemic species.
I like the sleek colour pattern. It would not look out of place on a coverable sports car.
While the adult is sleek, the larva is a rat-tailed maggot with a long snorkle out its rear end that allows it to eat decomposing matter in stagnant water.
I saw this while on my weekly biodiversity run this afternoon through Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.
https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/348889144
#diptera #flies #entomology #nz #Syrphidae #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #iNaturalist
For those unaware of the work of Steven Jeunil Park here in #Ōtautahi #Christchurch. They do amazing things with dye and textiles
https://www.instagram.com/6x4online?igsh=c3h1NWNrdzYyMzc5
cc @stephen
LucireYou read it here first! There will be two issue 53 covers, photographed by Dave Richards (Jess S. in black) and Jon Moe (actress Samantha Rose Baldwin in white). Jess will appear in most markets while Samantha will initially appear in digital editions retailed by Scopalto. More details soon, and you can order our new print number at https://lucire.biz/product/lucire-issue-53/ #Lucire #FashionMagazine #fashion #mode #moda #MagazineDeMode #SamanthaRoseBaldwin #NYC #NY #USA #Aotearoa #NZ #Ōtautahi
So. Much. Colour!!
Here's my pick of the sunset photos from this evening. When Ōtautahi-Christchurch turns on a sunset, it goes all in.
(My full-resolution photos, plus a few more, are at Flickr, eg https://www.flickr.com/photos/mollivan_jon/55194998475/)
Here are four things I saw yesterday in Ōtautahi-Christchurch city, NZ.
