World's Biggest Insect
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World's Biggest Insect
Fri 2 Dec 2011 - 19:26
This amazing/disturbing picture is of a giant weta, the world's biggest insect at a whopping 71 grams in weight. Wetas are cricket- or grasshopper-like insects native to the smaller islands of New Zealand, having been eradicated from the larger islands due to recently-introduced rats and other mammals. It's been officially named as the heaviest adult insect in the world (though some insects, like the Goliath beetle, attain higher weights in their larval stages).
The pictured giant weta is more specifically a wetapunga (you are encouraged to pronounce this "wetapunga!"), or a Little Barrier Island weta, named for the small island on which it is found. This particular specimen was found by adventurer Mark Moffett, who was somehow able to overcome the terror of seeing a bunny-sized bug.
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Fri 2 Dec 2011 - 21:11
thats New Zealand.
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Sat 3 Dec 2011 - 6:50
DJ Twigg wrote:I shall raise it as a pet and name it Paul...
mine will be called Rango.
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Sun 4 Dec 2011 - 16:57
I'd call mine "my dick". Then impressing the chicks "wanna see My Dick? It's the worlds biggest insect".
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Sun 4 Dec 2011 - 17:47
Thats huge!
This bug seems bigger though
South American Longhorn Beetle
Makes a waterbug look like an ant..
This bug seems bigger though
South American Longhorn Beetle
Makes a waterbug look like an ant..
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Sun 4 Dec 2011 - 19:13
Planet wrote:Thats huge!
This bug seems bigger though
South American Longhorn Beetle
Makes a waterbug look like an ant..
thats fucking crazy.
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Mon 5 Dec 2011 - 4:46
I'd rather be mauled around by a polar bear then let one of those things crawl on me.
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Mon 5 Dec 2011 - 5:15
ThatGuy wrote:I'd rather be mauled around by a polar bear then let one of those things crawl on me.
same. Polar Bear is sexy tho.
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Mon 5 Dec 2011 - 7:10
Planet wrote:Thats huge!
This bug seems bigger though
South American Longhorn Beetle
Makes a waterbug look like an ant..
Someone tell me that's Photoshop'd? Holy shit..
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Re: World's Biggest Insect
Mon 5 Dec 2011 - 7:34
Mr. Knocks wrote:Planet wrote:Thats huge!
This bug seems bigger though
South American Longhorn Beetle
Makes a waterbug look like an ant..
Someone tell me that's Photoshop'd? Holy shit..
that aint photoshop bro.
Re: World's Biggest Insect
Mon 5 Dec 2011 - 15:39
I think the one I posted is considered the Worlds Biggest Insect due to weight, not actual size.
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