When wētā expert, Professor Steve Trewick got a call from a Awatere Valley wine grower about wētā munching on vines, he was intrigued.
So he went to Marlborough to check for himself - and made some exciting discoveries about what he has dubbed, the wine wētā,
He says it is very rare in New Zealand to find a native animal population that is influenced positively by human activity, which is why the wine wētā discovery is so significant.
