New Zealand Geographic Trust young gun Bryce McQuillan has kept his camera running red-hot, photographing cockroaches and winged weta in this issue. He will soon join professional photographer Rob Suisted in the first match-up of our mentoring scheme. - Appears in New Zealand Geographic Issue 96.

Summer is notoriously busy for marine mammal strandings along our coastline. However, New Zealand Geographic Trust funding recipient Dr Karen Stockin reports that the numbers of common dolphins that have stranded or been washed ashore as dead beachcasts is noticeably less than that of previous summers. She and the team at Massey University’s Coastal-Marine Research Group are now researching why this is the case. - Appears in New Zealand Geographic Issue 96.