What a great bunch of puriri trees waiting for a cache! Look out for the holes in the trees. The home of the puriri moth.
Cache is on the cycle way which runs over private land. No need to leave the trail. Placed with landowners permission. Please respect the area.
Puriri moth
The puriri moth (Aenetus virescens), also commonly called the ghost moth or pepetuna. This moth is endemic to the North Island of New Zealand. It is New Zealand's largest moth, with a wingspan of up to 150 mm. It spends the first five to six years of its life as a grub in a tree trunk (common host plants are the puriri tree and putaputawētā but puriri larva also inhabit non-native species such as eucalyptus, with the last 48 hours of its life as a moth.