The tree weta, which looks like a cricket, is not cricket sized, it is the heaviest confirmed insect on earth. Males throw that weight around fighting for females, mostly by trying to dismember each other with their giant pincers.
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Meet the Weta, an Insect as Big as a Gerbil | Absurd Creatures | WIRED
