I've been up in the North Canterbury mountains this week, helping to teach our third-year undergraduate field ecology research course at #LincolnUniversityNZ. It was great fun, as always, helping students to carry out their first ecology research projects.

I'm collapsed back home, and very tired, after a week of long days outside then nights spent at the moth light. I've got a small mountain of photos to sort out and upload. That can wait until another day but here's a small taste.

#ecology #fieldwork #fieldTrip #nz #BoyleRiverOutdoorEducationCentre #Boyle

Oh, and here's the most elegant moth that flew into our moth lights this week.

It's the appropriately named Exquisite Olearia Owlet (*Meterana exquisita*) and we saw just one of them and it looks to be the first record of the species from North Canterbury.

Just look at it!

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/336654099

#BoyleRiverOutdoorEducationCentre #moth #iNaturalist #mothodon

@joncounts 😍

I want to pet it

@bougiewonderland Indeed! We were talking around the moth light this week about how a lot of moths could easily be scaled up to make excellent plush toys for children.