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Interesting Weta Facts
  • Wetas are nocturnal. That means they sleep in the day, and come out at night.
  • Weta look very scary, but they don't hurt people.
  • Their main predators are rats, cats and dogs. They are also killed by people.
  • Some types of weta are almost extinct.
  • When a weta grows bigger, it sheds its old skeleton and grows a new one.
  • Baby wetas grow from eggs. Their parents are dead by the time the eggs hatch.
  • Wetas today are pretty much the same as they were a hundred million years ago!