Some say this is a huge grasshopper or a locust and I say maybe but I believe it’s a Weta Bug. Have you seen one? No? Same here, mate. For a entomophobia like me, this is not good health news. A former park ranger while traveling in New Zealand has tripped up across the world’s largest insect, a Weta Bug. It has a wing span of seven inches and the weight of three mice. You can just imagine how large it was.
Mark Moffett, 55, narrated his story to me. There were three of them walked the trails of this small island for two nights searching the vegetation for a giant weta,. They spent many hours with no luck finding nothing. But then they saw her up in a tree. The giant Weta is the largest insect in the world, and this is the biggest one ever found, Moffett said this with owlish eye.
If you have seen the insect you would have backed away at such a discovery. But Moffett held the giant insect in the palm of his hand and started feeding it with carrot.
The insect enjoyed the carrot so much she seemed to take no notice of the fact she was resting on Moffett hands and went on munching away. She would have consumed the carrot very quickly, but Moffett and the others were reminded that the weta is extremely endangered species and didn't want to risk indigestion. After she had gnawed a little Moffett took photos and they put her right back where they found her.
Watch a video of a smaller, but still huge, Weta Bug in action here. And yes, the man in the video actually eats one of the bugs. Bug preservationists need not be worried the smaller Weta for your info is not endangered:
The Weta Bug had a long history going back 180 million years, ahead of the dinosaurs, but was thought to be extinct after European explorers had innocently brought rats with them to New Zealand's Little Barrier island.
Source: Odd News
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