Wētā eggs are laid in soil over the autumn and winter months and hatch the following spring. A wētā takes between one and two years to reach adulthood, and over this time will have to …

Tree wētā eggs are laid during autumn and winter, hatching in spring. The female wētā has a long, curved egg-laying spike (ovipositor), which can be bent under her body to force eggs …

Having achieved adulthood in approximately 14–24months, wētāpunga commence breeding 1 to 2 months after maturity. The females will lay eggs throughout their adult life, generally …

Additionally, there is very limited information about parental care of giant wētā species, but similar species groups of ground weta (Hemiandrus) have shown that females provide their eggs and …

Female tree wētā can look pretty threatening, too. They have an ovipositor for laying eggs, but it looks like a very large stinger! Tree wētā are the species most likely to enter into ‘wētā motels’ …

A female giant wētā can lay between 200-300 eggs in her lifetime. She lays her eggs inside curled up dead leaves or on rotten logs. These eggs take about 125 days to hatch and the nymphs …

Mar 15, 2021 · Giant wētā can live up to two years. Eggs take 125 days on average to hatch, then hatchlings go through 10 instar stages until adulthood – that’s one instar more than other wētā …

Mar 11, 2022 · Some of the males have bigger jaws. In contrast, females have an ovipositor at the end of their bodies that look like big stingers. The ovipositor is not a stinger, rather it is for egg …

Adult wētāpunga live for only about 6-9 months, during which time they will mate repeatedly, with the females laying many groups of eggs in soft soil on the forest floor. Where do they live?

Male weta have much larger heads than females and more fearsome looking jaws. Females have a long ovipositor(egg laying tube) that looks like a stinger at the rear of her body. Just inside …