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Critter of the Week: Humpback Whale Louse
Audio 26 Sep 2025Jesse spoke to Forest and Bird Chief Executive Nicola Toki about it. Audio
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Critter of the Week
This week's critter is the New Zealand Dobsonfly (Archichauliodes diversus). They are the only representing species of this group in New Zealand. These insects are unusual, spending most of their life… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Debris Cloaking Bark Beetle
The critter for this week is rytinotus squamulosus, the debris cloaking bark beetle! Audio
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Tom Phillips: The man who vanished
The Detail talks to reporter Tony Wall, who's covered the saga of the fugitive father and his children for nearly four years.
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Critter of the Week: Northland Tusked Weta
This week's critter is small but very fierce! The Northland Tusked Weta is around 2 cm in size, they are a beautiful orange-brown colour with bands along the back. These little critters live in small… Audio
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Critter of the Week Merch is BACK!
Critter of the Week merch is back!
THE LINK TO ORDER A BAG, A TEE OR A HOODIE IS HERE!
That's right, you can proudly show off your favourite endangered critter.
Orders close on October 6th, with… Audio -
Critter of the Week: The Jaw Moth is in the spotlight
Critter of the Week is our chance to put the spotlight on some of our endangered creatures. This week we're turning our attention to jaw moths, they're considered to be the most primitive living… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Crabill's Centipede
It's time for Critter of the week where we put the spotlight on an endangered insect, and today's critter is the very definition of tiny but mighty. The Crabill's centipede is small by most standards… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Western Tiger Moth
Audio 8 Aug 2025It's just after three thirty which means it's time to talk critter of the week, the segment where we focus on an endangered creature. Today the spotlight is on the Western Tiger Moth. As the name… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Mokopiriakau granulatus - the forest gecko
This week's critter of the week is the moko piriakau, also known as the forest gecko. They are renowned for their ability to easily camouflage to their surroundings and their incredible climbing… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Ranger Dragonfly
Next Thursday is World Ranger Day, and to celebrate this important role and the people doing it, our critter of the week is the endemic ranger dragonfly. Just like human rangers, these ranger… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Ranger Dragonfly
Next Thursday is World Ranger Day, and to celebrate this important role and the people doing it, our critter of the week is the endemic ranger dragonfly. Just like human rangers, these ranger… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Alicella Gigantea
This week's critter of the week loves freezing temperatures, no sunlight and extreme pressure. It lives at extreme depths, seven kilometres down, not just surviving but thriving. Nicola Toki joins… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Scorpionfly
Audio 11 Jul 2025This week's star critter is called a scorpion fly and yet it isn't actually a scorpion or a fly. Stumped? Us too... Fortunately, Nicola Toki is with to explain what it is. Audio
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Critter of the Week: The impressive Golden Hunter Wasp
It's critter of the week time, and this week we're looking at the Golden Hunter Wasp. It's also known as the red spider wasp because they hunt spiders in a most impressive manner. Audio
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Critter of the Week - Spotlight on the stars in our forests
This week's critter of the week will resonate with highly observant nature lovers. You may have noticed strange little markings covering the surface of leaves, turns out these are actually tunnels… Audio
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Why 'cute' pets are now included in pest management plan
The Bay of Plenty has added cute and charismatic critters to its pest list, along with changes to how other pests are categorised.
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Critter of the Week
Critter of the week is the New Zealand Backswimmer! This week's critter is a common inhabitant of ponds. You may have seen them before, swimming under the surface upside down! The New Zealand… Audio
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Critter of the Week: The Frostfish
Meet the Frostfish! This beautiful iridescent silver fish is found all over the world, but are also native to our waters.
They are known for stranding on beaches after especially frosty nights, hence… Audio
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Critter of the Week
This week's critter has a rather extreme attachment style. The genus name of the trematode, Philophthalmus attenuatus, means 'eye-loving', which is a polite way to describe the adults of this species… Audio
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Critter of the Week
It's often said New Zealand has no native snakes, but that's not quite true. The venomous, ocean-dwelling yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) occasionally drifts into our waters. Around 6 to… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Glowworm parasite
Audio 16 May 2025This week's critter is a tiny wasp that looks a lot like an ant. It lives in and around healthy native forest gullies where there are plenty of glowworms. But these wasps aren't looking for a romantic… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Speargrass
Speargrass might not win any popularity contests - its sharp spikes can draw blood from unsuspecting trampers - but for one of New Zealand's most endangered insects, the stout speargrass (Aciphylla… Audio
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Critter of the Week Spade-toothed whal
This week's critter might be the most mysterious mammal on Earth. There are only seven records of the spade-toothed whale, Mesoplodon traversii - despite it being the size of a car. The first record… Audio
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Critter of the Week: Karengo
This week, we're talking about a group of edible red seaweeds called karengo. Karengo is dark, sleek and slippery and grows throughout Aotearoa (and the world) on rocky coastlines in the intertidal… Audio
