Season of Change

One of the curry flowers mantis nymphs is well advanced and will soon change to an adult. Meanwhile, (see the extra shot), the well developed nymph I have been tracking for days has already changed. I could not find it yesterday so that is probably when it happened. Obviously it has spent the night in the rain. Yesterday’s rain, hot and cold gales and searing sunshine was not kind on the world of little creatures.

Even though our weather seemed bad to me yesterday it was nothing compared with the gales, flooding, sea surges and wildfires that occurred in other parts of the South Island. A lot of people have had a very rough time. Here today it is overcast and cool.