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| Thread ID: 85071 | 2007-11-28 18:58:00 | Let's Match Indigenous Animals | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 616038 | 2007-11-28 20:04:00 | Ah well then, if we are going to go that way Bruce, including extinct indigenous beasties, we could lick this upstart who lives on what was left behind when Noah dunged out the Ark - we only need to look at birds, and he would be left in our dust: www.teara.govt.nz for example. Got any of those SJ, or just the carrier pigeon? :rolleyes: |
John H (8) | ||
| 616039 | 2007-11-28 20:07:00 | Well, Bruce . . . . . The only thing we have here to match that is not truly local to me . . . but I did live where they were: Cicadas . But they have them in Australia . . although they EAT them . . . it is not a taste I have developed . We DO have the potato bug ( . google . com/imgres?imgurl=http://dracoverdi . net/pictures/shinyPotatoBug . jpg&imgrefurl=http://dracoverdi . net/pages/potatoBug0 . html&h=910&w=790&sz=51&hl=en&start=1&sig2=KRqLZmjy9CHyNL6kYQv2gQ&tbnid=Ruc7FLrYvLZ6nM:&tbnh=147&tbnw=128&ei=mtNNR-ytK53MggOTiMylDg&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpotato%2Bbug%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D30%2" target="_blank">images . google . com 6hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg . mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG) . . . it's UGLY! . . . but very benign . . thankfully! They can kill you by sight! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 616040 | 2007-11-28 20:12:00 | Cool! They look like cuzzie bros of our weta. Just note though, that the giant weta is the size of a mouse... At the Karori Sanctuary in Wellington, they have "weta motels" - hollow manuka trees with little hinged doors you can open to see the wetas at home. I think the Aussies eat the witchetty grub (sp?) which is similar to the larvae of the weta. |
John H (8) | ||
| 616041 | 2007-11-28 20:14:00 | Good thing this post isn't asking for big birds in Japan . . they have Mothra! One of our largest, and flightless birds is everyone's favorite ( . com/images/SesameStreetBigBird . jpg" target="_blank">qmusings . com) . It gets lots of air time and media coverage . It has some bad press-release currently and as a result has taken a new role in seasonal comestibles . ( . mac . com/shapsteve/images/bigbird . jpg" target="_blank">homepage . mac . com) |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 616042 | 2007-11-28 20:26:00 | We got orcs and king kong! guides.gamepressure.com Wetas: awcmee.massey.ac.nz Weta means both singular and plural but sometimes an ‘s’ is added in English literature |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 616043 | 2007-11-28 20:47:00 | Gotta correct you John H. Wetas do not have a larval stage, only a series of immature instars which look like the adult version. The NZ equivalent of a witchety grub is the larva of a Huhu beetle. The potato bug is a member of the order Orthoptera, which includes wetas, crickets and grasshoppers among others. Thus they are related more closely than other insects. |
user (1404) | ||
| 616044 | 2007-11-28 20:48:00 | I can see that I had a . . shall we say . . . "certain shortsightedness here" with asking for indigenous animals when there aren't any to speak of . . and I don't want to hear from NZ bat owners, NZ Bat Owners' Associations (The NZBOA, Ltd) or Bats-R-Us pet shops either . Let's branch out a little then . How about lakes/rivers/oceans? :waughh: Does anything live in them? If this doesn't work, we can compare earthquake faults and active volcanoes . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 616045 | 2007-11-28 21:04:00 | Gotta correct you John H. Wetas do not have a larval stage, only a series of immature instars which look like the adult version. The NZ equivalent of a witchety grub is the larva of a Huhu beetle. The potato bug is a member of the order Orthoptera, which includes wetas, crickets and grasshoppers among others. Thus they are related more closely than other insects. :o You are totally correct - the larva I was thinking of was the huhu beetle larva, not the weta. I knew that some years ago, but forgot. I stand corrected. :thumbs: But I did not know there was no larval stage for wetas. Clever wee fellas eh? We used to get those darned huhu beetles in my aunt's house - I was told they came up the waste pipe in the sink, but I can't see how that could have happened. |
John H (8) | ||
| 616046 | 2007-11-28 21:11:00 | (snip) How about lakes/rivers/oceans? :waughh: Does anything live in them? (snip) Well, we do quite a good line in these fellas: www.doc.govt.nz Taste good too! And inanga or whitebait are a seasonal delicacy too whilst we are on the subject of taste. The season has just ended (sob). Whitebait sandwiches are a highlight of the year (to hark back to a different thread!). en.wikipedia.org Sadly, much of the fish and invertebrate life in our rivers has been decimated by imported trout and salmon. Perhaps you know of the size of trout in NZ lakes and rivers SJ? If you want to go with birds, we do a pretty good line in penguins, some of which are endemic to NZ. |
John H (8) | ||
| 616047 | 2007-11-28 21:37:00 | Don't forget the Taniwha - they live in rivers and lakes. And have a predisposition to living where a new road is about to go through, where, for a suitable exchange of piles of cash (to the local iwi - that's 'tribe', SJ) the taniwha can be made to see reason and move away.... | johcar (6283) | ||
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