Hills Rd Franklin,  Dec 2008
  Excursion and end-of-year barbeque at Neil Klaer's property.
 

The party on a walk through tall regrowth blue-gum forest up-hill from Neil's house.

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Heartberry, Aristotelia peduncularis.

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Green Bird-orchid Chiloglottis cornuta.

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A siphonotid millipede, not yet formally named, but temporarily known as 'AcuMes'.

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Callidircaea venusta, a false darkling beetle on dry fallen dogwood.

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A Pentatomidae bug, Notius depressus,
laying a green egg on fireweed (Senecio linearifolius).

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Amaurobioidea spider, looking very grey because it has just moulted.

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Larva of the chrysomelid blue flea beetle Altica pagana,  on Acaena novae-zelandiae.

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Entoloma rodwayi.

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Psathyrella (Lacrymaria ) asperospora.

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Two stages of Arsroe rubra, the stink-horn fungus.

Early stage (left);
and fully emerged (right), showing  its red 'tentacles' and smelly brown spore-bearing slime

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Photos by Lynne Forster, Geoff Fenton