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World's biggest insect found
Saturday December 03, 2011 07:12:09 PM,
IANS
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London: An American
explorer claims to have found the world's biggest insect on New
Zealand's Little Barrier Island.
The insect is called the "Weta Bug" and has a wing span of around
18 cm and weighs "as much as three mice", The Sun reported.
The insect, which was found by 55-year-old Mark Moffett, was
thought to have become extinct after Europeans brought rats to New
Zealand many years ago.
"Three of us walked the trails of this small island for two nights
scanning the vegetation for a giant weta. We spent many hours with
no luck finding any at all, before we saw her up in a tree. The
giant weta is the largest insect in the world, and this is the
biggest one ever found," said Moffett.
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