So I've just trapped this great big weta in a tupperware container...

[PrincessBandit]

I love wetas. We used to have heaps of them round our place but they seem to have all disappeared (maybe our 3 cats ate them all?) When we had a huge tree stump removed professionally the guy who did it told me that you can tell wetas gender by (surprise surprise) looking at the rear end. A single long spiky thing is what the females lay their eggs from; males have the two little pincer type thingies, kinda like an earwig. Bit of useless information for the day.

[sAsLEX]

However, I found this:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dicti...te%20salutamus

which makes us both right

I remember reciting verb ending in latin for fuckin years

O S T MUS TUS NT........... but alas like all useless information it is stored in the dark recesses of my mind.

Ques es struthio camelus depalatus?

I just had a thought.

It's a good thing wetas can't fly. Just imagine hitting one bang on with your visor at 150kph!

Would take a light weight weta over a huhu beetle any day. Those things are massive and hard!

[FilthyLuka]

this thread is Useless without pics.

come on man! where are they?

[The Pastor]

there was no weta

[FilthyLuka]

i feel cheated

[Big Dave]

Tupperware. How quaint.

[jrandom]

Here he is on the kitchen bench.

He wouldn't stay still on my arm and all I have is a crappy phone camera, so I'll try for a decent picture this evening.

(Yes, I rarked him up by tapping him on the back with a pen to get this display.)

[007XX]

I remember reciting verb ending in latin for fuckin years

O S T MUS TUS NT........... but alas like all useless information it is stored in the dark recesses of my mind.

I know what you mean...personally, I stayed well away from latin classes...however, the particular sentence Jrandom and I were debating was a favourite saying of a geeky boyfriend of mine back in the days So, it kind of stuck as useful information for some reason

[u4ea]

Here he is on the kitchen bench.

He wouldn't stay still on my arm and all I have is a crappy phone camera, so I'll try for a decent picture this evening.

(Yes, I rarked him up by tapping him on the back with a pen to get this display.)

That weta is very photogenic!Nice pose..Be good to see how big it is next to the pen.I love wetas so be kind to our prehistoric relative JRandom!

[F5 Dave]

I remember drawing the curtain & something jumping on my hand at which point I squealed like a schoolgirl. Weta landed on floor. Not my proudest moment.

He must have come in with the firewood, so I tried to pick him up to take him outside, but he was hanging onto the carpet for dear & didn’t want to dismember him, so gave him a grape to try lure him onto a floor tile & put a plastic container over so he would crawl on the tile to get the grape.

Next morning he & the grape were gone (but where did he go?). Despite the fact that there was only about a 5mm gap under the container where the tile met the carpet. OK maybe he was strong enough to lift it. But carrying a grape!?! It would have been too big to eat it all.

[vixter]

microwave the bugger then eat him

[vixter]

or ground him up and mix him with weed and smoke the bugger.... yup now thats the way but you still gotta watch him in the micro

[YellowDog]

RJ mate, this thing sounds gross. If you wait long enough, it will probably multiply.

[jrandom]

By the way, if anyone was wondering what happened to Mr Weta, he got a ride down to the central North Island in Betty's pannier bags, and kiwifruit and I released him in the forests of azure after the last MotoTT trackday.

Scuttle free, noble invertebrate!

[Mikkel]

What happened to the good old days when people would have gotten a roll of duct tape out and gotten down and dirty?


My sister and her boyfriend got a video of a sparrow pwning a Huhu beetle over by Fox Glacier. Looked pretty cool!