The Weta

My Article on the Weta:

Physical Features
The Weta’s appearance looks a bit like a grasshopper, katydid or cricket. They are very large compared to other insects. Their legs are quite big but most of the time they’re spiny. A lot of these creatures are wingless and all of them can’t fly. The colours on a Weta are usually shades of brown and black.

Their Environment
Weta’s can cope with more than one kind of temperature that’s why their environments aren’t in one area. These different areas include caves, forests, grassland and shrub lands. Most Weta’s live up in the north island of New Zealand.

A Weta’s Diet
These creatures like to eat during the nighttime since they’re nocturnal. They munch on leaves hanging on trees. Tusked Weta’s like to eat earthworms and beetles. Weta’s also eat plants and other insects which makes them omnivores.

Types
There are five different types of Weta which include the tree Weta, cave Weta, giant Weta, tusked Weta and the ground Weta. But if we’re talking about how many species are there that would be 70 and 16 at risk.

Breeding and Evolution
Their eggs are laid during the colder months in autumn and winter and they hatch during the spring time. Each Weta has an amount of how many years they live for but the cave Weta has seven. A tree Weta has at least one or two years before it’s developed into adulthood. During this period of time it would have shed its skin at least ten times. This is also part of the evolution of a Weta.