Talk:Giant wētā

Weigh
More than 70 g ? It's not true : see Weta for details. Chaoborus 23:48, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism
Please, refrain from plagiarizing texts. This article is entirely identical to the one found here: http://www.cafeterra.info/2009/02/giant-weta-heaviest-insect-in-world.html The image is the same too. --186.213.118.122 (talk) 02:45, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
 * This article was built up as a result of numerous changes since 2006. Most of these changes occurred while this was a paragraph, and later a section, within the weta article, and it was then split off into this article. The site you link to above appears to have copied the contents of our article as of about June 2009.- gadfium 03:48, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Weta in California
The citation used for weta in California is incorrect. It's a youtube video of a Jerusalem cricket. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.88.222.114 (talk) 18:36, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Have removed. I guess you don't see many in Russia! Martinevans123 (talk) 20:32, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

Weta in Macedonia?
This is certainly impossible. The insect shown on photos at that Macedonian article is a rare species of armoured cricket from subfamily Bradyporinae - Deracantha onos, which is native to southern Eurasia. It is not so widely known as wetas are, while having a similar appearance. And it is much smaller than wetas, reaching about 60 millimeters in length. So the journalists, in their usual ignorant manner, exagerrated the insect's size up to "small rabbit" with "tail 10-15 centimeters long" (which is an ovipositor actually). Even true wetas cannot be THAT big. Compare the pics in article with pics of Deracantha onos in Google Image Search: https://www.google.ru/search?q=deracantha+onos&newwindow=1&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=2F4MVNyXGOHqyQO7z4CoDw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#q=deracantha+onos&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbs=isz:l Article - http://novatv.mk/index.php?navig=8&cat=2&vest=12605 So the link to that 'fake Macedonian weta' should be deleted, and I'll do it right now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MegasomaElephas (talk • contribs) 13:31, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

This paragraph deserves an award…
… for the most repetitive text in all Wikipedia. Written by a high-schooler for homework? So much padding! Enough with the ‘introduced species’ stuff.

‘Most populations of giant wētā have been in decline since humans began modifying the New Zealand environment. All but one giant wētā species is protected by law because they are considered at risk of extinction.[1] Three arboreal giant wētā species are found in the north of New Zealand and now restricted to mammal-free habitats, reason being, the declining abundance of most wētā species, particularly Giant wētā, can be attributed to the introduction of mammalian predators, habitat destruction, and habitat modification by introduced mammalian browsers. New populations of some wētā have been established in locations, particularly on islands, where these threats have been eliminated or severely reduced in order to reduce the risk of extinction.[6] Deinacrida heteracantha, and D. fallai are found only on near-shore islands that have no introduced predators (Te Haututu-o-Toi and Poor Knights Island). ‘