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Weta (plural weta) is the common name for a group of about 70 insect species in the families Anostostomatidae and Rhaphidophoridae, endemic to New Zealand. The word is from the Māori language, where singular and plural have the same form.
Many weta are large by insect standards and some species are among the largest and heaviest in the world. Their physical appearance is like a katydid, long-horned grasshopper, or cricket, but the hind legs are enlarged and usually very spiny. Many are wingless. Because they can cope with variations in temperature, weta are found in a variety of environments, including alpine, forests, grasslands, caves, shrub lands and urban gardens. They are nocturnal, and all New Zealand species are flightless. Different species have different diets. Most weta are predators or omnivores preying on other invertebrates, but the tree and giant weta eat mostly lichens, leaves, flowers, seed-heads, and fruit.
Weta can bite with powerful mandibles. Tree weta bites are painful but not particularly common. Weta can inflict painful scratches, with the potential of infection, but their defence displays consist of looking large and spiky, and they will retreat if given a chance. Tree weta arc their hind legs into the air in warning to foes, and then strike downwards, so the spines could scratch the eyes of a predator. Pegs or ridges at the base of the abdomen are struck by a patch of fine pegs at the base (inner surface) of the legs and this action makes a distinctive sound. These actions are also used in defence of a gallery by competing males. The female weta looks as if she has a stinger, but it is an ovipositor, which enables her to lay eggs inside rotting wood or soil. Some species of Hemiandrus have very short ovipositors, related perhaps to their burrowing into soil and laying their eggs in a special chamber at the end of the burrow.
Edward Michael "Bear" Grylls (born 7 June 1974) is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild (2006–2011), originally titled Born Survivor: Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom. Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngest-ever Chief Scout in the UK at age 35.
Grylls was born in Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland. He grew up in Donaghadee until the age of four, when his family moved to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight.
He is the son of Conservative politician Sir Michael Grylls, who was implicated in the cash-for-questions affair, and Lady Sarah Grylls. Lady Grylls is the daughter of politician Patricia Ford, briefly an Ulster Unionist Party MP, and cricketer and businessman Neville Ford. Grylls has one sibling, an elder sister, Lara Fawcett, a cardio-tennis coach, who gave him the nickname 'Bear' when he was a week old.
The tree weta, which looks like a cricket, is not cricket sized, it is the heaviest confirmed insect on earth. Males throw that weight around fighting for females, mostly by trying to dismember each other with their giant pincers. Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on YouTube? ►► http://wrd.cm/15fP7B7 CONNECT WITH WIRED Web: http://wired.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/WIRED Facebook: https://facebook.com/WIRED Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/wired Google+: https://plus.google.com/+WIRED Instagram: http://instagram.com/WIRED Tumblr: http://WIRED.tumblr.com Want even more? Subscribe to The Scene: http://bit.ly/subthescene ABOUT WIRED WIRED is where tomorrow is realized. Through thought-provoking stories and videos, WIRED explores the future of business, innovati...
New Zealand band formed in 1995. Had a good live reputation and were support act for Everclear, The Foo Fighters and Soundgarden. Weta moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1998 and in 1999 released the Natural Compression EP. In September 2000 they release their first album, Geographica. But they broke up in 2001. They reformed and played in New Zealand during November 2008. However, they broke up again, presumably for good.
Man vs Wild S07E05 Land of the Maori. This episode was filmed in New Zealand's North Island, where Bear attempts to eat NZ's largest bug, the tree weta. More info on the tree weta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weta
This video is for educational purpose show how an insect/bugs naturally fights and defend it self for survivor in predatory world. Insect Fights - Sia Ferox / WETA VS Galeodellus spider. Solifugae / Wind Scorpion / Galeodellus Spider : Solifugae are carnivorous or omnivorous, with most species feeding on termites, darkling beetles, and other small, ground-dwelling arthropods. Solifuges are aggressive hunters and voracious opportunistic feeders and have been recorded as feeding on snakes, small lizards, and rodents.[5] Prey is located with the pedipalps and killed and cut into pieces by the chelicerae. The prey is then liquefied and the liquid ingested through the pharynx. Although they do not normally attack humans, their chelicerae can penetrate human skin, and painful bites have been re...
The heaviest insect and biggest grasshopper in the world is the Giant Weta, a dinosaur insect is unique to New Zealand and primarily found on it's offshore islands. Their genus name Deinacrids translates in Greek to "Terrible Grasshopper". The beast bugs are often called the dinosaur of the insect world having not changed much over the last 100 million years.There are 11 species of giant Weta and they can be up to 4 inches long not including their legs & antennae and weigh up to 1.25oz roughly the weight of an average golf ball. They are so heavy these insects they can't even jump. The Little Barrier Island Giant Weta AKA: Wetapunga is the largest of the weta species. One domesticated female grew to 70 g which is heavier than a sparrow. She was one of the worlds heaviest recorded inse...
View Giant Weta crawling on Hand, and being weighed. More weta video at http://stockfootage.nhnzmovingimages.com/index.php?a=QuickSearch&qsv;=weta&x;=0&y;=0&searchDef;=all
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