My NZ Stick insect

We have been learning about minibeasts in class as part of science. We have been creating information report on a minibeast of our chose. The mini beast we chose had to live in New Zealand Here is my writing. I worked with Flynn.

Animation

Today we were learning to do an animation on google slides. We had to use free to use images and we had to change the code to make it work.We had the code I also changed the word false to true inside the code. In the code I also changed the moving part faster. Hope you enjoyed my animation.

Weta Report-Term 3

This is a piece of writing that we done for are minibeats topic when we were learning about weta. We had to write an information report on this insect.


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                   The Weta

     What is a weta?

Weta are a native insect to New
Zealand/Aotearoa
.pepeke/Weta are invertebrates and they have
an exoskeleton. An invertebrate is an animal
that has its skeleton on the outside which is
called an exoskeleton. They don’t have a
spine. Weta look similar to crickets. They have
six legs. They have two antennae. They have
ear just below the front of their knees. They
have an abdomen and a thorax. People often
think they look ugly.This is why Maori people
called them punga which means the spirit of
ugliness. There are five main types of weta
but there are over 70 species. Although weta 
might not look pretty they are important.

     

Where do weta live?

Weta live in many different places in the
world.Weta only live in New Zealand. Tree
weta are mostly found in rotten logs and
tree’s trunks. They even live in your woodpile.
Cave weta are mostly in caves near the ocean
shore .Ground weta normally live on the
ground near trees. Giant weta normally live
in forests and grasslands and some giant
weta live in caves.Tusked weta are mostly
found in the same place where giant weta
live. They live in alpine forests, urban gardens
and grasslands. Even though weta might live
in different places they are still important.

Weta feeding behavior

Weta eat quite a lot of different food. Weta can
be carnivorous or a herbivore and some can
be an omnivore. They also enjoy eating leaves
and lichen. They also eat fruit and vegetables
like carrots and other fruits and vegetables.
Some weta eat snails and worms and some
weta also eat other insects. Some weta can
eat seed heads, and plants and some also
eat flowers. Weta can sometimes eat the same
things as us. 

Breeding

Weta normally mate in the spring or summer.
The male weta normally fight the other weta to
protect their females. In autumn they lay their
eggs 6-10 at a time. Overall the females lay
up to 300 hundred eggs in there lifetime and
they can live up to two years.

Social behavior

Tree weta normally live in groups. And other
weta live on their own. Some males fight other
males so they can protect the females. Some
weta use their legs to make chirping noises and
that's how they communicate.

Threats

Some weta are endangered insects. Some
threats are humans because humans cut down
their trees which are there home. Birds are
their biggest predators. Cats, hedgehogs, birds,
humans, weka, kiwi, rats and mustelids(stoats,
ferrets) and also others are all predators.

Ending

Weta have been around since the dinosaur age.
Even though weta are ugly they are still very
important to our world. Weta are native insects
that are older than the 

dinosaur age.      By Cooper