A Special Visitor

We had a Weta visit us this morning. Great to look at through a magnifying glass!
 Did you know that....

Wetas have ears, they’re just not on the sides of a weta’s head like ours are.

A Weta’s ears are on its front legs near its knee joints. They don’t look like our ears though; they’re more like little holes that are quite hard to see.

Wetas also have very simple feelers on their bottoms balled cerci (sir-key) which they use to detect vibrations - including vibrations caused by sound so the cerci work a bit like ears too.

They use their ears to listen out for predators - other creatures that might like to eat them or hurt them.

Thanks to Suzy's World