Mark Anderson
@ngaioweevil.bsky.social
Biology teacher with a passion for NZ ground beetles and giant weevils. Love wild places, especially islands and mountains. My happy place is being out in the field monitoring the rarest beetles in NZ
This is one of NZ's rarest species - the ngaio weevil, browsing on ngaio leaves that are toxic to almost all species. There are only around 300 on one island, Takapourewa in the Marlborough Sounds. Background sound is some of the million seabirds that live on the island.
January 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
This is one of NZ's rarest species - the ngaio weevil, browsing on ngaio leaves that are toxic to almost all species. There are only around 300 on one island, Takapourewa in the Marlborough Sounds. Background sound is some of the million seabirds that live on the island.