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Podcast: Our Changing World
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It's a trap! The prickly prize of ongaonga
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:34:19
Publish Date: 2022-09-28 16:00:00
Description: It's spectacularly spiky and delivers a painful – or even deadly – sting. Why are a team of conservationists growing and planting up Orokonui Ecosanctuary near Dunedin with more and more native tree nettle, ongaonga? It's all because of a pretty little pollinator called the kahukura, or red admiral butterfly, and its prickly preferences. Claire Concannon visits Orokonui to learn more about the ongaonga-kahukura relationship, as well as new research investigating whether these native butterflies are the victims of a sneaky ecological 'trap'.
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