Thursday 6 August 2020

Weta

classification: 
An Weta is from the Grasshopper family. Which are Insect's. They are different Insect's in there family to like Giant weta, cave crickets, tree weta and fallai, Deinacrida. 

Description: 
Weta have six legs. They have a thick armour on the outside of their bodies called an exoskeleton to protect them from any predators. They also weigh there mice.

Location:  
Weta have been in New zealand since Dinosaurs were on Earth. You can find them in old logs. in wet dark places or even in Zoos or ECO santrees.

Dynamics:
They also do big circles poos to fertilize the ground. so the trees can grow so the Weta's Nef that are babys weta can live on the trees and then it just goes in a circle. The circle of life. 
They also moult ten times a year and two months.    
  

Wētāpunga | New Zealand's Giant Endangered Insect | Auckland Zoo

  


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