This is the world's largest insect. The giant weta is a cricket-like creature with a wingspan of close to seven inches. The one in the picture (full image here), isn't just the largest weta, it's the ...

Animals all over the planet have adapted to take full advantage of the habitats within which they live. However, the mountain stone weta (Hemideina maori) has one of the most extreme adaptive ...

An American explorer has found the biggest insect on record in New Zealand. The Weta Bug has a wingspan of seven inches and weighs the same as three mice. Former park ranger Mark Moffett, 55, from ...

This is not good news for entomophobia sufferers. A former park ranger traveling in New Zealand has stumbled across the world's largest insect, a Weta Bug, with a wing span of seven inches and the ...

Research in the iconic, and some say maligned, New Zealand weta is challenging ideas about how a large group of insects including crickets and katydids hear, and has revealed an unexpected similarity ...