Sample from Corinne Watts, labelled as follows:
Maungatautari - South Cell
Outside Cell
Transect 1
Pitfall trap: G
20 Nov 2023-17 Dec 2023
New Brighton Community Gardens Winter School Program. Group 1.4 Pitfall trap, under olive and bay laurel tree, amongst bushes.
Three katipo webs in this plant, but only the one katipo. They don't generatly build lots of web if they're not well fed.
A predator Sidymella trapezia was also in this plant, which may have preyed on one or more in this plant already. It was nixed, as happens every time I find one of them.
Large grub or larvae - not sure what of - living in rotting log - thought it was huhu but doesn’t look like the photos
Two adult females in adjacent webs.