A little video I cut together showing one of our adult male wētā eating his old moult! When they’ve just moulted, wētā appear a pale/white-ish colour. After a few hours, this male will turn brown again.
All posts tagged: New Zealand
What the weta? This Power Ranger cricket can take on three different forms.
When most animals grow up, they pretty much look the same. Like, can you tell the difference between these two squirrels? I mean, besides the fact that the one on the right might have a mild obesity problem, I couldn’t tell you who was who, […]
Photography From New Zealand
A sampling of my photos from my latest research trip to NZ, more of which can be found on my flickr page and here!
Becoming a Real Scientist & Returning to Canadiana
Hail and well met, blog readers! It’s been a while. One whole month to be precise. Which I spent working in the field collecting data for my Master’s research on weta, those crazy giant nocturnal crickets I like to think about! I unfortunately was not […]
Sunburnt, Barefoot, and Cradling a Six-pack
Only in New Zealand do I ever end up fitting the description in this title. Yes, this is how we found ourselves at the end of my latest travel excursion: a stumbling tomato-red UV-destroyed lump just hoping to clutch together the disintegrating cardboard holding a 6 pack […]
Photography and Departing to the Other Side of the World
Dearest readership, hear ye hear ye: I finally updated my Canada photography on this blog! Sounds like a cute little task, but has actually been the cumulative effort of the past several weeks, sorting through all the old photos I have fermenting on my computer and […]
Sprucing Up Old Photos
I have a backlog of photos that I’ve been meaning to edit, and finally my addiction to podcasts has left me with enough what-do-I-do-with-my-hands time to actually learn how to edit them! (You know you’re a hopeless podcast addict when you’re trying to find activities […]
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