W is for Weta: New Zealand creepy crawlies

"Wētā have been around long enough to see dinosaurs come and go and to evolve into more than 70 different species, all of them endemic to New Zealand."

A weta in our bach!

Stick insect, 15 cm!

Seems to be the season to find some of the New Zealand 'specials', the notable Weta, strange and just a little prehistoric. This one had snuck into our bach here on the Coromandel and gave Shawni rather a fright.

And a brown stick insect that is huge but anorexic looking, the largest insect in New Zealand, with forever long legs, which landed up on the outside neighbour wall in Ngaio.