IMG_2570 Honey bee (Apis mellifera) Apiarist Carl Thomson examines a frame of bees from a hive at Hanmer. European Honeybees were first introduced into New Zealand in 1839.
DSC_6611 Southern rata (Metrosideros umbellata) Zhemera, Lilly, and Ryker plant a rata tree at school for 'Project Crimson' on Otago Peninsula *
DSC_7097 Pouched lamprey (Geotria australis) freshwater scientists searching a stream for ammocoete larva which live buried in the mud for the first four years or so of their life, before eventually transforming into macropthalmia, and migrating downstream to the sea. Okuti River, Canterbury
