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 ...

Insect ears The iconic New Zealand cricket-like weta has ears similar to those of a whale, researchers have found. Biologist Dr Kate Lomas, of the University of Auckland and colleagues report their ...

For a male tree weta, size really is everything. In six of the seven species in New Zealand the males all sport a distinctly large head, and the bigger the head, the better the chance of mating.

Two tree weta Hemideina ricta and H. femorata are predominantly allopatric on Banks Peninsula (South Island, New Zealand) except for four small areas of overlap. H. ricta was found over the outer ...

Female weta aren't ashamed to admit it – size matters. A new study by Massey University post-doctoral researcher Cilla Wehi has found that the bigger a male tree weta's head is, the better his chances ...

WETA PUNGA: Considered nationally endangered, these giant wetas are one of the world's heaviest insects, weighing as much as a sparrow.SHANE WENZLICK This week Department of Conservation community ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- For a male tree weta, size really is everything. In six of the seven species in New Zealand the males all sport a distinctly large head, and the bigger the head, the better the chance ...

Weta might be saying no to interspecies ardour, but human-induced environmental change is looming as a matchmaker. New research has been looking at a paradox animals at risk of extinction face - ...

Although reproductive and behavioural studies have been conducted on captive tree weta, there have been very few ecological field studies of any of the weta species involving free-ranging, marked ...