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My name is Luna and I am a PhD student at the university of Otago! I work on of threatened stag beetles called Geodorcus! The main focus of my PhD is to look at the behaviour of the charismatic G. helmsi.

How can you help?

If you are out and you find one of these beetles and want to put it on iNaturalist, I am looking for photos to include into my dataset. You can use this pamphlet as a reference on how to take pictures of Geodorcus. You can download this pamphlet by clicking here: https://tinyurl.com/2yzxdyz5

Updates

While I was visiting the Otago Museum, they did a blog post about my research and why I decided work on the group that I do. You can check this story out here: https://otagomuseum.nz/blog/research-insights-q-and-a-luna/