
Wētā - Wikipedia
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 …
Page 2. Tree wētā - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
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 …
Giant wētā/wētāpunga: New Zealand invertebrates
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 …
Giant wētā - Wikipedia
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 …
Wētā — Science Learning Hub
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’ …
Wētāpunga - Giant Wētā - Envirohub
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 …
Our wētāpunga is a world record holder - Predator Free NZ Trust
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 …
7 Weta Facts - Endemic Insects - New Zealand Nature Guy
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?
WETAS - Wild About NZ
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 …