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15 fantastic facts about our famous arthropod New Zealanders

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  1. Avondale spider, our Hollywood star!
  2. Weevils: the longest and smallest in the world
  3. Long-lived adult of Poor Knights weevil
  4. A bat-fly with high level of social behaviour
  5. Fairy flies
  6. A wasp that eats ladybirds
  7. Thieving wasps
  8. Wëtä weighing 71 grams!
  9. Our largest and smallest native spiders
  10. Katipö spider
  11. Food of the New Zealand blue blowfly maggot
  12. Köwhai leaf-miner moth: one of world's smallest moths
  13. Huia louse: extinct before being discovered!
  14. Longest appendages
  15. Rarest moth?