I might be going feral

[Ixion]

Thats not nice. We kept some when I was at primary school as classroom pets. People caught ones they found and bought them in. We had quite a larger collection at one point. We feed them slices of apples from our lunch.

We did a big study on them. From memory i think our skin burns them when we touch them. I may be wrong though, and probably am. Was probably the teachers not wanting us to play with them because she didn't like them.

No, I think she was trying it on. Though, like most insects they harbour a fairly nasty bacterial load. Mrs Ixion spiked her hand on one of the sharp spiney bits of one hiding in a bunch of flowers, and the wound took a long time to heal and went quite red and nasty. But essentially, they're harmless, just vile and loathsome , which is why I will continue to pulp them .The only good weta is a pulped weta. Chooks will eat them BTW, they seem to regard them as a delicacy. But that's chooks for y'.

[Creeping Death]

I heard they taste like chicken, or was it peanut butter?

Thems be huhu grubs....mmmmm....huuuhuuu gruuubbbsss

[Oscar]

Of course, in the Tron - they bred 'em big...

[imdying]

I really loathe those things. Get a lot of them, and I find get smashed very flat. They're damn hard to smash too. Quite harmless, I know. I just loathe them. I don't give a flying F if they are some protected native species or not. They're going to be pulped .

If you hook 12 volts up to your leccy fly swat, they smoke (be warned though, they stink pretty bad whilst they burn)

[Big Dave]

Of course, in the Tron - they bred 'em big...

Muther fukker!

[cave weta]

Woo Hoo - a thead about my cuzzies.

I heard they taste like chicken, or was it peanut butter?

Taste this! its fowl!

Lovely things ar'nt they! Rud Klienpester taught me how to love em! they bristle with spikes and attitude but will never hurt ya.

just gently pick em up and put them in a flax bush if there is one handy.

If ya like em come onone of my tours and fill ya boots- the gold mines are full of em.

[jrandom]

Of course, in the Tron - they bred 'em big...

What the hell is that, some sort of bionic übercricket?

[Oscar]

What the hell is that, some sort of bionic übercricket?

Copper sculpture.
A bloke in Ham East makes 'em.

[jrandom]

Copper sculpture.
A bloke in Ham East makes 'em.

I'd love to have one. Could you PM me his contact details? How much does he charge?

[cave weta]

they're harmless, just vile and loathsome ,.

jeez ixion!

[Oscar]

I'd love to have one. Could you PM me his contact details? How much does he charge?

We got one for our new house - cost about seven hundy as I recall.
He's an electrical engineer and does them part time, so you can be waiting three or four months. He also does stick insects and spiders (the Weta is the best, though ours is about 1m long and way cool)-I'll dig out his details and send 'em to ya.

[Finn]

Oops, sorry, it's a local endangered species thingy.

Actually they're not endangered so squash away.

[jrandom]

We got one for our new house - cost about seven hundy as I recall.
He's an electrical engineer and does them part time, so you can be waiting three or four months. He also does stick insects and spiders (the Weta is the best, though ours is about 1m long and way cool)-I'll dig out his details and send 'em to ya.

Awesome. Ta.