More noctournal New Zealand crickets! These are auckland tree wetas, Hemideina thoracica. The photo
More noctournal New Zealand crickets! These are auckland tree wetas, Hemideina thoracica. The photo in the middle is of one 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.The large holes on their forelegs are actually ears - most grasshoppers, crickets and katydids have similar hearing organs.The bottom photo is of a corpse - they wouldn’t normally come out in the open during the day like this. -- source link
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