10 Wednesday <strong>January</strong> <strong>29</strong> <strong>2020</strong> News Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz BACKYARD CRITTERS SELWYN TIMES Firefighters give back ROLLESTON firefighters banded together to give blood last week. Chief fire officer Cam Kenyon said 24 of their members, their partners and wives, donated blood at the Rolleston Community Centre on Tuesday. “We get so much support, so this is our way of giving back. To give somebody a chance to live, or to fight a disease with our blood,” he said. A few of the firefighters have also chosen to give plasma and some decided to go on the world bone marrow transplant register. Now they have issued a challenge to the other local fire brigades. “We put a challenge out to you to do the same. Donate blood, plasma, or go on the bone marrow transplant register. “The NZ blood service is in need of all of this, so let’s get the challenge going.” It follows the Rolleston fire brigade being named the third busiest volunteer station in the country for call-outs last year. INSPIRED: Rolleston firefighters collectively gave blood last week and are challenging other stations to do the same. They attended 562 callouts during 2019, with medical incidents being the most common with 194. Mr Kenyon said: “We are known as a first responder brigade so we don’t just go to the cardiac arrests and things, we do anything an ambulance would do if there isn’t one available in the area.” • HAVE YOUR SAY: Do you support what the Rolleston firefighters did? Email your views to devon.bolger@starmedia.kiwi Mike Bowie is an ecologist who specialises in entomology (insects and other invertebrates). Each week he introduces a new species found in his backyard at Lincoln. His column aims to raise public awareness of biodiversity, the variety of living things around us. Check out the full list of invertebrates found at www.inaturalist.org/ projects/backyard-biodiversity-bugs-in-my-lincoln-section The native leafroller MOTHS THAT are bell-shaped when resting are known as leafrollers or Tortricidae. There are several species of leafrollers in New Zealand, some of which are significant in terms of fruit production including the light brown apple moth and the green-headed and the brownheaded leafrollers. The latter, Ctenopseustis obliquana, is a native species more commonly found in the North Island, but is also present in South Island. The brown-headed leafroller has a wingspan of 25mm and is brown in colour with darker markings on the middle front of its forewing. Larvae feed on a large variety of hosts that include kiwifruit, gum, oak, wattle, pine, larch, spruce and Douglas fir. Larvae feed on leaves, buds and stems whilst protected by a web pouch made of vegetation. The caterpillars are translucent green or yellow and reach 20mm in length when fully grown. Depending on the local temperatures, this species can have up to four generations per year. MEARES WILLIAMS LAWYERS ROLLESTON OFFICE 78 Rolleston Drive, Rolleston 10 Years in <strong>Selwyn</strong> Richard Gray rcg@meareswilliams.co.nz Kate Warren kcw@meareswilliams.co.nz Anita Molloy-Roberts am@meareswilliams.co.nz Belinda Ferguson bkf@meareswilliams.co.nz W: www.meareswilliams.co.nz T: (03) 374 2547 Offices also located at: 43 Gerald Street, Lincoln 225 Papanui Road, Christchurch WOF Only $50 • Courtesy cars • oil changes • tyres & batteries • Brake & clutch repairs • transmission flush service • Full mechanical repairs • Petrol & diesel servicing FitzgeRald MotoRs PHONE 03 349 7813 We’ve shifted now located at Unit 8,193 Waterloo Road, Hornby (6 doors down from our old site) find your groove ballet hiphop <strong>Selwyn</strong> 9 x 6.4cm ad jazz contemporary Monday to Saturday Preschool to Advanced RTS RAD BBO JDNZ NZAMD Classes at Halswell Ladbrooks and Lincoln Call 03 354 6228 or 0274 836 265 www.annaleeschoolofdance.co.nz ANNA LEE SCHOOL OF DANCE
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