WETA MOTEL (HOROWHENUA) Traditional Cache
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The motel is placed on the tree beside the (Himatangi Scientific Reserve) on the corner of Himatangi block road and Paranui road. Cache is best visited in the day while the residence are sleeping . the residence are free to come and go as they please so the less they are disturbed the better. The log is a micro, but there is also a camo swag bag, they are located in the motel. Open the door and all will be revealed. PLEASE close the door when you leave , otherwise this cache will come to a quick end. I hope you enjoy this cache as much as I have had making it.
Nine meters west of the cabbage tree on the side of the road is a pile of stones were you
Will go down a meter sand bank under bush to the tree .the motel started with 13 residence and has been set up for to weeks with two remaining at the time of logging please count and log the number when doing this cache.
Tree weta (Hemideina) are those most commonly encountered in suburban settings in the North Island. They are up to 40 mm long and most commonly live in holes in trees formed by beetle and moth larvae or where rot has set in after a twig has broken off. The hole, called a gallery, is maintained by the weta and any growth of the bark surrounding the opening is chewed away. They readily occupy a preformed gallery in a piece of wood (a weta motel) and can be kept in a suburban garden as pets. A gallery might house a harem of up to ten juveniles of both sexes, females and one male. Tree weta are nocturnal. Their diet consists of plants and small insects. The males, which usually have much larger jaws than the females, hiss and bite when threatened.
Female Wellington tree weta
There are seven species of tree weta:
Additional Hints
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