Mosquitoes in the mail: our citizen scientists are hungry for the count
This past summer we engaged the services of citizen scientists nationwide to deliver samples of mosquitoes | waeroa, in our first nationwide mosquito census.Read more
2020-05-29
A quest to find the world’s only hot pool mosquito
Did you know there’s an endemic species of mosquito that exclusively occurs in New Zealand’s thermal pools? We don’t know much about this species, so in October and March, bug expert Julia Kasper made it her mission to find it – a mission that included a harness and a gas monitor, ʻin case of toxic gas eruptions’.Read more
2020-04-07
New Zealand’s weirdest mosquitoes: The impatient males
Curator Terrestrial Invertebrates Julia Kasper looks at the reproductive lives of our local mosquitoes.Read more
2017-10-20