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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 04:34 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sitting on my bike seat this morning.

A Weta.




Cool critters - once you get to know them.
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Boney95
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 06:20 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That thing is nasty! Reminds me of these jumping spider things we had in the basement when I was a kid. Let's just say I never went down to the basement.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 06:32 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

It's interesting coming from Aus - where pretty much everything is deadly poisonous - to NZ where everything - except the Aussie imports - is harmless.

I was freaked by the Wetas at first, now I like 'em and handle them. They are actually a protected species.
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Brumbear
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 07:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

and quite tasty when carmelized and let to air cool
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 07:40 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What we need - is a great big melting pot - and we could turn out toffee coloured bugs for folks to score.
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Brumbear
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 08:16 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)



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Ourdee
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 09:17 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Protein is good.
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Road_thing
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:12 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Looks like they'd be good stewed with okra...

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Jaimec
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:29 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That's a female. Just did some reading up on them. Pretty cool! Closest thing I guess we have in this country would be the Mormon Cricket:
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 04:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Cool - Mine was just a small one - a pal sent me this one in Hamilton.

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Edgydrifter
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 04:46 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

...and that would be the exact moment that I'd blow a porthole through my wall with a 12-guage slug. Holy smokes! Please tell me those suckers don't move quickly.
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 04:49 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

He just confided that is a $500 metal sculpture. Suckered I guess.
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Edgydrifter
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 05:04 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Whew. I've seen weta on TV before, but nothing that ginormous. As a motorcyclist, I'd just thank my lucky stars that they don't fly. Er... they don't fly, right?
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Danger_dave
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 05:09 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I don't think they fly - for a brown guy.
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Jaimec
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:35 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

They're wingless, just like our Mormon crickets. Fortunately, they aren't a pest like the Mormon cricket. Then again, when Mormon crickets swarm, they're gathered and roasted over a fire and are considered a native American delicacy...
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Preybird1
Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 10:41 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

YUK!

Wow if they could fly them little horned bits would really hurt!

A large bumblebee hit me on the neck at 60mph man it hurt so bad for 2 hours!!
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Diablobrian
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 01:14 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

That weta looks like what they modeled the "Edgar-alien/bug" after from the first Men
in Black movie. Something about the proportions and shape of the head bring it to mind.
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Jaimec
Posted on Wednesday, February 11, 2009 - 08:42 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I once took a June Beetle in the Adam's apple at highway speed. I BARELY made it over to the shoulder to stop till I could stop gagging. CHRIST that hurt!! And the little bugger hit me right below the neck flap of my helmet and just above the collar of my riding suit, on the half inch of exposed skin there!!

Amazing accuracy... Hope the little ****er died afterwards! Damned things are like rocks with wings!
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