Ecoblitz

Rob Cruickshank sucks up an insect using a pooter

Adrian Paterson and James Ross identifying animal footrpints on tracking cards

Looking for aquatic invertebrates

Jon Sullivan with an earthstar fungus

Earthstar fungus

Looking for benthic invertebrates in a sample from the stream

Water samples from the wetland stream

Dudley Bell from the University of Waikato and Elizabeth Graham from NIWA electric fishing in the wetland stream

Sampling was carried out in cow paddocks as well as the remnant kahikatea forest

St Peter's students holding collapsible trays for catching insects during beating

Brian Patrick holding a green beetle

Stephane Boyer and student using a micropipette

Student looking at insects under a microscope

Using a light trap to attract flying insects at night

Stephane Boyer and students searching for earthworms

Native earthworm collected in the kahikatea forest

Sorting plant samples ready for identification

NIWA staff talking about wetland insects next to the restored wetland at St Peter's school

Fungus found on the underside of a rotting log in a cow paddock