@tippitiwichet I can't top this pollinator photo taken by Chris Ecroyd. It's of a New Zealand Pekapeka-Tou-Poto (lesser short-tailed bat) pollinating a Pua-o-te Reinga (Dactylanthus taylorii), one of NZ's few parasitic plants. Chris helped to figure out that this weird plant was reliant on this weird bat for its pollination.

Pua-o-te Reinga is a threatened "nationally vulnerable" plant as it's dependent on the roots of old growth forest trees, its flowers are now eaten by introduced rats and possums, and it's now only pollinated by Pekapeka-Tou-Poto bats, which are themselves now rare and nationally vulnerable.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/102521672

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