Had an encounter with some new zealand wildlife a few nights ago. We were at a BBQ and afterwards we were sitting in the living room of the guys flat. Someone lets out a shout and jumps up and out of a nearby chair saying he spotted something on the floor. A few of the guys started poking around the chair, and eventually turned it upside down in search of the mysterious 'huge thing' that had been spotted on the floor. One guy then spots it, picks it up and turns round...hanging from his hand was the hugest beastie I have ever seen. Needless to say I started screaming and hiding behind people. Apparently it was a weta. Very common here and looked kind of like a very large, fat stick insect. I was going to look up a picture on the internet just to get a closer look, but decided that I'd just get scared and jumpy and paranoid about huge insects crawing around......