New Zealand Invertebrates

DSC_9014 West Coast giant forest weta (Hemideina broughi) dead female killed by the entomopathogenic Sugar icing fungus (Cordyceps bassiana) and discovered by Rod on Mount Rochfort in February 2012, during the Bioblitz organised by Forest and Bird to 'Save Denniston Plateau' *

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DSC_9014 West Coast giant forest weta (Hemideina broughi) dead female killed by the entomopathogenic Sugar icing fungus (Cordyceps bassiana) and discovered by Rod on Mount Rochfort in February 2012, during the Bioblitz organised by Forest and Bird to 'Save Denniston Plateau' *

DSC 9014 West Coast giant forest weta Brough's tree Hemideina broughi entomopathogenic fungus White muscardine Cordyceps Beauvaria bassiana fungus Mount Rochfort male taipo North West Nelson Denniston Plateau