The first 5 beasts in this gallery are New Zealand examples of gigantism, insects evolving in the absence of mammals. The giant Weta is the heaviest insect the world. The others shown here form an ongoing collection of animals from around the world. Some will have suffered, being washed up in a swimming pool in Italy or chased around an Austrian town before ending up in front of the lens. Others have died of natural causes and were simply picked up where they fell.
![Giant Weta - Anostostimatidae Deinacrida spp](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/62b2bc5379245329e7c546436c891e6dc9518c32953cb07ffe1c84429174a334/Giant-Weta.jpg)
![Puriri Moth - Aenetus virescens](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9facc4e1d945590c3b167e482973d2d622e7a037d356b715437d836f53043e03/Puriri-Moth.jpg)
![Giant Bush Dragonfly - Uropetala Carovei](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f3c9702a038be54ceb959cf88cb6258aea6de9468cb70e704011c908859e9ef9/Giant-Bush-Dragonfly.jpg)
![Huhu Beetle - Prionoplus Reticularis](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d7f862654c120eae4dcdba4c865f32b4c9c7017c125d22c0934ae48a8ceb373/Huhu-Beetle.jpg)
![Giraffe Wevil - Asiorhynchus Barbicornis](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3913238fbf71162e1a325b126cdb098868fbaca11dceaa02093dbd7e0e8e590c/Giraffe-Weevil.jpg)
![Black Veined White Butterfly - Aporia crataegi](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4e05e065348d166d18dd4481e6645dca2440b35577ed0fcc50fbd614a53c94a8/Bestiary-Robber-Fly-2.jpg)
![Thorny Seahorse #1 - Hippocampus histrix](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a601ba2abdfb377f3c0861d41f1eae28673487972107ccdf2e386ee6879fecb4/Seahorse001.jpg)
![Two Puss Moths - Cerura vinula](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a456f9f77f4d738d3d34c32e9f85d9b1d666f0e74821c0b04e46355b205267a4/Charles-and-Friend001.jpg)
![Winter Moth - Operophtera brumata](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8930ed7275fcdd8751dbd561c4b259f8b859b616bb894fd6e8cb3b01743bf18f/Brown-Moth-05-09-12001.jpg)
![Muscid Fly - Graphomya maculata](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0c798e9f0faec58f6ca25f9866d0f91b6bfb2ffb045aadbdb6ae2bd844cefb7/Fly001.jpg)
![Thorny Seahorse #2 - Hippocampus histrix](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1f5e002a9e76fd2a6923fb133eb86eaae6f1d5ffaad13ac20f9df048619fc70e/Seahorse002.jpg)
![Essex Emerald Moth (extinct since 1991) - Thetidia smaragdaria](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b317a0ec6a2bbfa364e266b540b5f9cc16cb4531625af82410d0100e6ddf64d5/Lance001.jpg)
![Tree Wasp - Dolichovespula sylvestris](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f76f21362f58d77df932faa48056dc1015df75fd84252f3c636dd57a603d18f4/Wasp-05-09-12001.jpg)
![Male Common Blue - Polyommatus icarus](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64e23dc414c8cc31ce4258e6a6b9ee1552b8d8d516c03be5615560202fe5d664/Derek003.jpg)