Bats are New Zealand's only native land mammals There are three species: the long-tailed bat, the lesser short-tailed bat, and greater short-tailed bat. This is due largely to New Zealand’s In 1974 several trips were made to the sanctuary by Dr Kuschel with other staff from the Entomology Division, they returned to the site of the fallen kauri to discover a bat roost with walls covered in bat guano, bits of dead bat-fly and bat-fly larvae – but unfortunately no live bats or bat-flies.It wasn’t until Cyclone Allison hit Omahuta in 1975, causing damage to a second kauri tree (which the bats from Kopi had moved into) that Dr Holloway joined a government-backed bat rescue operation and was able to witness a live bat-fly colony in action – thousands of batfly eggs, larvae, puparia and adults. They include the most primitive types of dragonfly The majority – more than 90% – of insects found in New 3.They’ve also evolved some incredible abilities, like being able to locate their food by bouncing sounds off the objects around them (echolocation) and slowing down their metabolic rate so they can hibernate in colder months when food is scarce (torpor). In fact, the relationship between bats and agave are so strong that bat populations will fluctuate in size in accordance with the success of agave!New Zealand bat-fly specimen from New Zealand Arthropod Collection. Some of my favourite spots include the one-and-only Tongariro River and several of Lake Taupō tributaries such as the Tauranga-Taupō, Hinemaiaia, Waimarino, Waiotaka and Waitahanui. Photographed by Ben Goodwin with permission from Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research.New Zealand bat-fly specimen from New Zealand Arthropod Collection. In these woody refuges, the bats dwell collectively in small roosts.Alongside the bats lives the New Zealand bat-fly, additionally in small colonies. There are wilderness rivers here with numerous tributaries, glacial lakes surrounded by rainforest and the plethora of spring creeks. near fresh water, but a few have taken to the sea. From 1840 until the 1960s the greater short-tailed bat was confined to Big South Cape Island and Solomon Island, off the coast of Stewart Island. New Zealand was recently home to a third species, the greater short-tailed bat (Mystacina robusta). reached the east coast of Australia, probably carried on a There is also plenty of good still water, relatively remote rivers accessible by a robust 4x4 and a few backcounty options. But there is now conclusive evidence that most take the direct route south across the central Pacific to New Zealand. Affected by a disease of unknown origin which damaged their ear pinnae, this created concern from experts that they may no longer have been able to echo-locate to find food, and likely would have died if they were not rehomed.In the past we've been able to rear lesser short-tailed bat twins - the first time this threatened endemic New Zealand species was ever bred and hand-reared in a zoo.Initially these bats were translocated from Pukaha Mount Bruce to live on Kapiti island to create an insurance population for their species. The Over the past few years I've been spending a lot of my fishing time in the lowlands, delighting in huge biomass of brown trout, epic mayfly hatches and the challenges these bring about. (Petaluridae), plant bug (Peloridiidae), moth Our native bat species face very similar threats to Aotearoa’s endemic birds such as predation by introduced species like stoats and feral cats and habitat loss through forest clearance, for the bats (and therefore the bat-flies), large, old forest trees, such as kauri (Auckland Zoo was home to a colony of rare Waiohine short-tailed bats from 2007 – 2013 who spent some of their time in the Night forest aviary in Te Wao Nui. Helicopter and fix-wing floatplane access in a norm and a seaworthy boat can open up a lot of independent options. They leave from Alaska in the northern autumn, and until recently it was assumed they followed a coastal route southwards that would allow them to feed and rest along the way. Adult flies and larvae are also known to mutually groom each other – a behavior most often associated with primates, not flies. other freshwater fish. Two world capitals, two islands, two kinds of wild trout. This is why the town of Gore, at the bottom of the South Island, built a monument to brown trout and proclaimed itself the brown trout capital of the world, while Tūrangi, where the Tongariro River enters Lake Taupō, did the same with rainbow trout. The New Zealand bat-fly (Mystacinobia zelandica) is cold-sensitive, blind, unable to fly and feeds only on the guano (poo) produced by the New Zealand short-tail bat which it relies on to create the warm temperatures it requires to survive and breed. New Zealand’s coastal rocks. Gravid females (those carrying fertile eggs) will accompany bats on their nocturnal feeding expeditions with a clever evolutionary purpose.
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