On 1 July 2025, NIWA merged with GNS Science to become Earth Sciences New Zealand.

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Simon Hayes/NIWA

Freshwater ecologist Michelle Greenwood holding an A3-sized sticky sheet which was mounted near a streetlight to trap insects. Across all sampling nights and experiments in the project, researchers caught over one million insects.