Weta Report

Title: Wetas

Introduction: Wetas are members of the insect family and are endemic to New Zealand they are
also the heaviest insect in New Zealand.


Life cycle

Weta hatch from eggs and are born in spring.

As they grow they shed their exoskeleton at least 10 times. The exoskeleton is on the outside.

The tree weta can live for six months but in the alpine they can live for a couple of several years.

Diet

Weta eat other insects

They sometimes eat each other

Appearance

Wetas are  insects they all have 6 legs, a head , thorax and abdomen.
Wetas look
alot  like big  grasshoppers
or crickets with long
antennae.

Habitat

Wetas live in forest to camouflage in the trees.They also live in caves,Tree Wetas live in the Rain forest or burrows.