#hemideina

[innonurse]

Hearing loss: Healthtech startup Hemideina wants to challenge Cochlear

Healthtech startup Hemideina, which recently closed a fully subscribed $10 million capital raise is looking to disrupt a global market already dominated by one of the stars of the Australian biotechnology industry — Cochlear, which today has a market capitalisation of $15.1 billion.

[zoomology]

Lockdown Wētā Hotels

A blog post by Emma Lockdown 2020 In March last year, New Zealand was in its first lockdown because of COVID-19. Tom and I had been due to head back to England but couldn’t. We were lucky enough to have work we could do from home (I had a lab set up in our garage for my NZ work and Tom had UK desk-based work). In our free time, we also had a long list of projects and renos to occupy us, as well…

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[plausibledeniability]

Why I keep a pint glass on my bedside table: this time of year we get a lot of unexpected visitors. Mature male wētā (Wellington tree wētā, Hemideina crassidens). #nz #weta #hemideina #wellington #aotearoa (at Wellington, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvjGeiiFcsL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g8wbn3oi28nv

[wild-e-eep]

More noctournal New Zealand crickets! These are auckland tree wetas, Hemideina thoracica. The photo in the middle is of one reversing out of a tree knothole where it has spent the day resting. You can quite often glimpse the rear end of a tree weta by looking in small holes in trees.

The large holes on their forelegs are actually ears - most grasshoppers, crickets and katydids have similar hearing organs.

The bottom photo is of a corpse - they wouldn't normally come out in the open during the day like this.