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This week's critter is te mokomoko a Tohu - an elusive gecko only named by science in January this year. Te mokomoko a Tohu is a large gecko native to Te Tau Ihu o Te Waka-a-Maui, the Marlborough… Audio

This week's critter is the sleek and powerful ngaro wiwi or large black hunting wasp (Priocnemis monachus) that specialises in hunting some of our largest spiders. Audio

This week's critter is the ngaro tara or three-lined hoverfly, a noisy native species with an important role as a pollinator.  Audio

The last critter of 2022 is a shy and retiring orchid that's threatened by habitat loss and climate change. The copper beard orchid (Calochilus herbaceous) is a stout orchid with a generous ruby beard… Audio

This week's critter is the glow-worm hunter harvestman, Forsteropsalis photophaga. These gangly, crab-clawed arachnids live in the Waitomo Caves and subsist exclusively on a diet of glow-worms. Male… Audio

This week's critter is the pepe pouri / black mountain ringlet butterfly to help celebrate International Mountain Day, which is next Wednesday.  Audio

This week's critter is the Antarctic sea pig - a rotund pink sea cucumber that lives on the muddy seafloor of the Ross Sea. Sea pigs are like living vacuum cleaners for the ocean. They spend their… Audio

If you've ever looked at a pond and seen little bugs swimming across the surface, chances are you've seen this week's critter - the water boatman, Sigara arguta. Audio

The scree weta (Dienacrida connectens) is Aotearoa's largest nocturnal alpine insect. Like its name suggests, it likes to make its home in loose rock on the sides of mountains throughout Te Wai… Audio

Despite its English name, bush lawyer doesn't settle disputes in the back country. Tataramoa (which literally means 'a heap of prickles') hides its many medicinal properties behind a viscous tangle of… Audio

This week's critter lives in the twilight zone of the world's largest ecosystem and is the largest glow-in-the-dark vertebrate in the world. The kitefin shark is a powerful and solitary hunter. Audio

This weeks' critters are pale, ghostly, long-bodied invertebrates you've probably never heard of, Cave Diplurans. Audio

This week's critter has been dubbed a 'monster in a barrel' and a 'sinister squatter.' The barrel shrimp, makes its home out of transparent sea creatures like salps and jellyfish by eating out their… Audio

Caddisflies are common to healthy streams and waterways but how not many people know that we also boast some of the only marine caddisflies in the world! Audio

This week's critter is the taiko or black petrel - a vulnerable seabird that only breeds on Aotea and Hauturu-o-toi. Because they spend so long out at sea, taiko have developed a superpower! They can… Audio

We're talking ticks this week on Critter of the Week - specifically, the endangered kiwi tick, Ixodes anatis. Audio

This week's critter celebrates the blossoming kowhai that mark the start of spring, the kowhai moth (Uresiphita maorialis). Audio

We have a new design and run of Critter of the Week T-shirts available! They're made in collaboration with NZ company Joyya and one of its owners Jeff Ward joins Jesse. Audio

The New Zealand Fungarium is a collection of over 100,000 dried specimens of fungi kept in a carefully climate-controlled room.

Claire Concannon visits Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research in Auckland… Audio

This week's critter is the blue-eyed triplefin - a beautiful little fish with bright blue eyes and candy cane stripes on its body. Audio

They say once you've smelt this week's critter, you'll never forget it. We're talking about the basket fungus, Ileodictyon cibarium, which appears after Autumn rains. It has about 35 Maori names… Audio

Blue sharks are curious predators found in open oceans throughout the world with the largest numbers here in the Pacific. Audio

This week's critter is a rare species of planthopper that lives in a cave in Mohua Golden Bay. We don't know much about this mysterious, cave-dwelling insect except that it's almost blind and has… Audio

Nicola Toki introduces Jesse to the order of twisted-wing insects known as Strepsiptera; twisted in name, twisted in nature. Audio

You might have seen this week's critter swarming in the summer, painting the seas and beaches red. We're talking about the gregarious squat lobster (Munida gregaria). Audio

Our Changing World takes a trip to Rakiura Stewart Island with PhD student Luna Thomas to search for the endemic Helm’s Stag Beetle. Audio