Photo 3390584, (c) Grant Maslowski, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Grant Maslowski

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What

Mt Cook Giant Weta (Deinacrida pluvialis)

Observer

grantski

Date

February 3, 2016

Description

I saw this giant weta at 07:30am while it was out in the open feeding. I was doing some bird and mammal monitoring in the area. The altitude was about 1700m. The first picture I took while it was feeding (the most distant picture), another picture is with a pencil for scale and to show it's body a little more closely, and the last picture is a profile head-shot.

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Copyright: R. Grant Maslowski