{"id":43437,"date":"2022-04-11T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/six-new-weta-species-found-new-zealand-as-their-habitat-slowly-disappears"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:13:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T05:13:03","slug":"six-new-weta-species-found-in-new-zealand-as-their-habitat-slowly-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=43437","title":{"rendered":"Six new w\u0113t\u0101 species found in New Zealand, as their habitat slowly disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global heating speeding up their decline as terrain of newly discovered alpine species disappears  <\/p>\n<p>Six new alpine species of New Zealand\u2019s most unusual and beloved insect \u2013 the w\u0113t\u0101 \u2013 have been discovered, but it is a bittersweet victory, with another piece of research describing the threat global heating poses for their snowy mountain habitat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/27\/delightfully-horrific-weta-motels-proliferate-as-new-zealand-falls-in-love-with-the-giant-insect\">W\u0113t\u0101<\/a> belong to the same group of insects as crickets and grasshoppers, and there are between 70 and 100 species of w\u0113t\u0101 endemic to New Zealand. They are wingless and nocturnal, and some, including the w\u0113t\u0101punga, are among the heaviest insects in the world \u2013 comparable to the weight of a sparrow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/apr\/11\/six-new-weta-species-found-new-zealand-as-their-habitat-slowly-disappears\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global heating speeding up their decline as terrain of newly discovered alpine species disappears  Six new alpine species of New Zealand\u2019s most unusual and beloved insect \u2013 the w\u0113t\u0101 \u2013 have been discovered, but it is a bittersweet victory, with another &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,41,2331,456,1089,464,65,777,56,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-asia-pacific","category-climate-crisis","category-conservation","category-endangered-habitats","category-endangered-species","category-environment","category-insects","category-new-zealand","category-wildlife"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43438,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43437\/revisions\/43438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}