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| Hemideina thoracica - Auckland tree weta |
More noctournal New Zealand crickets! These are auckland tree wetas, Hemideina thoracica. The one above is reversing out of a tree knothole where it has spent the day resting - you can quite often glimpse the rear end of a tree weta by looking in small holes in trees.
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| Hemideina thoracica - Auckland tree weta |
The large holes on their forelegs are actually ears - most grasshoppers, crickets and katydids have similar hearing organs.
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| Hemideina thoracica - Auckland tree weta |
The photo above is of a corpse - they wouldn't normally come out in the open during the day like this.
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