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Classification
A Weta is an insect that looks a bit like a giant Cricket or a Grasshopper. A Giant Weta can grow up to your normal house sparrow. Giant Weta are endangered to New Zealand, There only 7 spices of giant Wetapunga left in New Zealand.
Description
A Weta has a large head that has 2 antennae, the Weta uses the antennae to feel.Weta does not have noses on their head. But giant Weta have ears on their legs. There are over 70 species of small Weta all over the world.
Location/Habitat
Wetapunga lives all over New Zealand, some common Weta lives in caves, the ground, trees, and holes under bark or leaves.Weta live over the world in wet places. Weta have been around since the dinosaur age.
Dynamics
Weta fertilizes the ground with their poop. Although Weta live all around the world
there are very little of them because they are endangered. Weta are mostly active at
night because they are nocturnal. I think that we need more Weta because they have been
around for so long why let them go extinct now when they could live for much longer
so our generations can know what they are.
We need to protect them because they are so much more than insects they are apart of
our environment, we need to treat them like all the other insects in the world not let them die out.
Kia Ora Ruby!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Poppy and I am from Room 25 at Owairaka school. I love your blog post because it was interesting and I now know lots of facts about Weta! You taught me that Weta have ears on their legs. Eww! Maybe you could draw a weta and label its body parts. That will be cool! When was the last time you saw a weta?
Blog you later, Poppy.