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  • A monarch butterfly with crumpled wings because of ophryocystis elektroscirrha.

    Using citizen science to help monarch butterflies

    Do any of the monarch butterflies in your garden have crumpled and deformed wings? Are they unable to fly and just fall to the ground? Do the pupae (chrysalis) have black spots? If so, they may have a parasite called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (or OE) that is only found in monarch butterflies.Professor Phil Lester is researching how common this parasite is amongst monarch butterflies in New Zealand, and he is looking for citizen scientists to help him.

  • Kauri and the community

    A University-led education and outreach project called Te Kura O Te Kauri has spent the last month aiming to inspire over 1000 students, teachers, family and community members to become guardians of their kauri forests.

  • rat inside sistema Tupperware box

    Secret lives of rats

    Most of us would go out of our way to avoid rats, but Victoria University of Wellington Master’s student Henry Mackenzie is closely tracking urban rats as they move round Wellington.

  • Genomics Aotearoa visit

    University partners with Genomics Aotearoa

    Several members of Genomics Aotearoa visited the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington recently to celebrate the University joining its genomics research platform.