Guest Author • Feb 01, 2018 •
By Peter de Lange A recent survey of Rarotonga’s little plants – the liverworts and mosses – has established that all is not well in the volcanic island’s forests. The plants, often dubbed the ‘canaries in the cage’ of the plant world because of their sensitivity to ecosystem change, are drowning under an onslaught of weeds that have spread from … Read More
David Winter • Mar 11, 2012 •
If you are a cricket fan you'll know what sort of weather we've had in Dunedin - wet and grey with a chance of denying New Zealand a glorious victory.* The gloomy picture outside the window is made worse for by the fact I've spent most of the... Read More
David Winter • Feb 06, 2011 •
Time for another tropical beetle from Vanuatu, and what could be more charming than a ladybird*?Or its absurdy spikey larvae? This ladybird is probably a bit larger, a bit rounder and a bit oranger than the ones you are used to seeing in your gar... Read More
David Winter • Jul 29, 2010 •
Crispin Jago has made a very cool thing, a periodic table of irrational nonsense. Rolling my eyes over the groups, wondering how people can believe some of these things, made me think about New Zealand's unique ecosystem of kooky ideas. We don't have t... Read More