Wetas are cool. What kind do you have?
I think fireflies are pretty cool, too... Would be kinda neat to cross a Weta with a firefly and get a weta that lights up in the dark. Now that would be something out of an old B movie! :-)
> Wetas are cool. What kind do you have?
We’ve got the “small” ones: the Giant Wetas are really only found on the rat-free islands offshore. Still, we are still talking about a fairly sizable bug...
> I think fireflies are pretty cool, too... Would be kinda neat to cross a Weta with a firefly and get a weta that lights up in the dark. Now that would be something out of an old B movie! :-)
(grin!) Strangely enough, glow-worms and wetas are often found in the same habitat: moist caves and tunnels in the dark.
Not far from where I live there is a tourist attraction, well worth the effort and money. It is run by the water company (”WaterCare”), and it is a narrow-gauge train that follows the tracks thru the bush and up to one of our dams, thru the original tunnels that were carved out of the hills when the dam was being built.
In the tunnels, glow-worms have set up — thousands and thousands of them. And quite often, you see wetas as well.
Well worth the price, just to see ‘em.