Kererū looking sleek and well insulated 🇳🇿

#nzwildlife

Still coming into their own in the garden. Months of food in compact spiral rows. Kind of new to me, but I'm impressed by the productivity and posture 🌱

#BrusselsSprouts

Let’s extend a hearty welcome to the newest APSF staff member, Mike Chan! Mike is an anaesthetic technician in New Zealand and the editor of the #APSFPodcast. He is also an avid beekeeper, horticulturalist, and New Zealand historian 🇳🇿 .

www.apsf.org/profile/mike...

Swan plant being a good host #nzgardening

Not concerned by the camera, the hive must have more pressing mid-autumn tasks

A female NZ giraffe weevil, pepeke nguturoa.

2 years as a larva burrowed in wood but just 2 weeks in an adult form.

Queen bee

One more tray for the collection

A vibrant and quite uniformly colored pollen harvest from the honey bees.