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#600343 - 08/12/13 07:29 PM New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlif...ts-carrots.html

World's biggest insect is so huge it eats carrots


Adventurer Mark Moffett has found the world's biggest insect - which is so huge it can eat carrots.

Mark Moffett found the cricket-like creature, which weighs a staggering 71 grams


Former park ranger Mark, 53, discovered the giant weta up a tree and his real life Bug's Bunny has now been declared the largest ever found.

He came across the cricket-like creature, which has a wing span of seven inches, after two days of searching on a tiny island.

The creepy crawly is only found on Little Barrier Island, in New Zealand.
The species were wiped off the mainland by rats accidentally introduced by Europeans.

After Mark found the female weta he fed it the carrot before putting it back where he found her.

Mark, 53, said: "Three of us walked the trails of this small island for two nights scanning the vegetation for a giant weta.

"We spent many hours with no luck finding any at all, before we saw her up in a tree.

"The giant weta is the largest insect in the world, and this is the biggest one ever found, she weighs the equivalent to three mice.

"She enjoyed the carrot so much she seemed to ignore the fact she was resting on our hands and carried on munching away.

"She would have finished the carrot very quickly, but this is an extremely endangered species and we didn't want to risk indigestion.

"After she had chewed a little I took this picture and we put her right back where we found her."

Mark, from Colorado, America, added: "We bug lovers hear a lot of people who think insects are inferior in some way because of their size, so it was great to see such a big insect.

"This became all the more amazing when we realized that this was the largest insect recorded."
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#600344 - 08/12/13 07:34 PM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Nana]
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Those are good with some Tabasco.
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#600345 - 08/12/13 07:36 PM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Nana]
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#600346 - 08/12/13 07:58 PM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: NucleusG4]
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#600349 - 08/12/13 09:46 PM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Nana]
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Just keep repeating to yourself;
"BUGZ R CUTE!, BUGZ R CUTE!"
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#600354 - 08/13/13 12:07 AM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Celandine]
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Topics like this one just bugs me to death

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#600357 - 08/13/13 12:30 AM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Nana]
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While one has to appreciate the fact that these "bugs"
were walking the earth @ the same time dinosaurs
were roaming both Australia & New Zealand...

...but when I read statements such as...
"The Wetas were killed-out on the Mainland (Australia)
by the accidental introduction of Rats."

even I gotta'
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#600374 - 08/13/13 05:59 AM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Celandine]
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...only a mother could love...

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#600376 - 08/13/13 10:40 AM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Pirate]
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#600395 - 08/13/13 05:33 PM Re: New Zealand has been removed from my bucket list! [Re: Celandine]
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When I watch those dinosaur series on The History Channel or the Discovery Channel, I always cringe when they do the giant insect era. Especially when they show those prehistoric centipedes, spiders & dragon flies.

I don't remember seeing any prehistoric butterflies.
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