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Grant for research into Māori rock art sites at Opihi, South Canterbury

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Te Ana Maori Rock Art Centre team leader Rachel Solomon is really pleased about funding for a project that will hopefully yield more information about the people who created the significant rock art sites around Opihi. (File photo)
A $250,000 grant will enable a project to investigate the past ecology of the 14 nationally culturally significant
rock art sites around Opihi in South Canterbury.
The grant for the project, led by Te Ana Rock Art Trust and Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, was announced by Minister of Research, Science and Innovation, Megan Woods, at Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research in Lincoln last week. ....

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Caterpillar army defeated during battle of the Japanese Honeysuckle in Te Awamutu

Close-up of adult horned Honshu caterpillar.
The caterpillars had a keen appetite for the honeysuckle and the idea was to reduce the weed to promote restoration of natural vegetation and ecosystems.
Waikato RiverCare operations manager Kevin Hutchinson, who managed riparian planting programmes across the Waikato, said early site monitoring in 2020 showed promising results.
“Leaf damage to Japanese Honeysuckle plants was noted throughout the release area, and was moving up host plants into the surrounding canopy.”
But by mid-February visible leaf damage had stalled.
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The Honshu White Admiral butterfly can lay up to 200 eggs. This one was released in Bothamley Park, Porirua, to combat Japanese honeysuckle. ....

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