The New Zealand velvet worm or ngāokeoke has been crowned bug of the year for 2025. The ancient gummy-looking worm, covered ...

The results are in, and New Zealanders have crowned the ngāokeoke (New Zealand velvet worm, Peripatoides novaezealandiae) the 2025 Bug of the Year. The whē (New Zealand praying mantis) came second, ...

Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor ...

The New Zealand velvet worm or ngāokeoke has been crowned bug of the year for 2025. The ancient gummy-looking worm, covered ...

The Marine Invasions Research Lab, based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is the nation’s largest program dedicated to monitoring the ocean and coastal regions for invasions by ...

New Zealand aims to raise $137 million to eradicate pests and restore ecosystems on three of our largest islands, as part of ...

A once-thought extinct native bird is now beating the odds, with a further release of 18 birds into the Rees Valley near ...

A biosecurity operation is under way and extra field teams are today in the suburb of Birkdale, on Auckland’s North Shore, ...

Auckland War Memorial Museum’s entomology curator, Dr. Leilani Walker, says she is backing the pūngāwerewere, the trapdoor ...

America has always stripped the land of its original, Indigenous names. It's had surprising climate implications.

When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great ...