If you are one of those people who do not like crickets and who do not think that they are lucky, you should probably avoid the Little Barrier Island off of New Zealand. It is the home of the giant wetapunga, which is eight inches (twenty centimeters) of corpulent insect pulchritude that can weigh more than a sparrow. The red object in the photo below is a full-sized tomato. "Wetapunga" is Maori for "god of ugly things."
"Weta Workshop" is also the name of a major special effects company for movies, TV shows, and commercials. Weta derived its name from the wetapunga insect because the cricket resembles many of the alien monsters designed by the studio.
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| Photo courtesy of Arpingstone via Wikimedia |
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