(PhysOrg.com) -- For a male tree weta, size really is everything. In six of the seven species in New Zealand the males all sport a distinctly large head, and the bigger the head, the better the chance ...

(Phys.org)—Research in the iconic, and some say maligned, New Zealand weta is challenging ideas about how a large group of insects including crickets and katydids hear, and has revealed an unexpected ...

The tree weta, which looks like a cricket, is not cricket sized, it is the heaviest confirmed insect on earth. Males throw that weight around fighting for females, mostly by trying to dismember each ...