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Wētā is a loanword, from the Māori-language word wētā, which refers to this whole group of large insects; some types of wētā have a specific Māori name. [2] In New Zealand English, it is spelled either "weta" or "wētā", although the form with macrons is increasingly common in formal writing, as the Māori word weta (without macrons) instead means "filth or excrement". [3]
Hemideina maori, also known as the mountain stone wētā, is a wētā of the family Anostostomatidae. They are a large, flightless, nocturnal orthopteran endemic to New Zealand . Mountain stone wētā are long lived and are found on many central mountain ranges in New Zealand's South Island .
This is particularly prominent in many birds such as the kiwi and insects including the wētā. [ 26 ] Since humans began inhabiting New Zealand in ~1280 AD, there has been consistent introduction of mammalian and bird species, many of which are predators to native fauna .
The Banks peninsula tree wētā is a nocturnal omnivore that eats small insects, as well as the leaves of trees, shrubs, and in some cases, pasture species. [ 5 ] [ 11 ] The main predators of Hemideina ricta are non-native mammal rodents, specifically rats and possums , which are pests throughout mainland New Zealand and some offshore islands ...
Hemiandrus is a genus of wētā in the family Anostostomatidae. In New Zealand they are known as ground wētā due to their burrowing lifestyle. [1] [2] Hemiandrus wētā are nocturnal, [3] and reside in these burrows during the day. [4] Ground wētā seal the entrance of their burrow during the day with a soil plug or door so that their burrow ...
An adult Poor Knights giant wētā (Deinacrida fallai) from Aorangi Island, Poor Knights Island group, Northland, New Zealand. Deinacrida fallai was only described as a new species in 1950. [2] It is the second largest wētā species in the world, [2] with females weighing up to 40g and measuring up to 73mm (2.87 inches) in length. [5]
At the heart of it all was VFX house Wētā, which had a crew of over 1000 artists working on delivering 1500 visual effects shots. ... water and even birds, all of which Winquist’s team had to ...
Major threats to weta include short tailed bats, birds, and reptiles such as lizards and tuatara. [3] Birds that tend to eat this weta include the kiwi, robin, tomtit and ruru. [14] Other introduced threats include cats, hedgehogs, rats and mustelids. Another major threat is humans as they tend to destroy the habitat of the weta. [15]