Lake Taniwha

Glow Worm Report

Glow  Worms

This is about Glow Worms. Their  tail glow’s because of the Bioluminescence in their tail.

The Glow Worm lives in caves, under houses  and dark damp places because they like it where

their light can shine. They use this light to invent  other worms to come eat dinner with them.

The Glow worm population is in Australia and New Zealand. The New Zealand Glow Worm is called Arachnocampa Luminosa. They are unique to New Zealand.There are heaps of different  species of glow worms spread over the world.

Glow worms are carnivores. They eat mosquitoes and flies. They can go without food for a month. Glow Worms catch their dinner by lowering their of sticky mucus to catch Midges, Mosquitoes and Flies.

The glow worm predators are Spider’s, Bird’s and centipede’s. These insects live in the ground. The spider uses sticky snares to pick up Glow worms

The life cycle of the glow worm is                                                                                         

1. They are eggs for Three weeks.

2. Glow worm for Nine months

3.They are a pupa(canon) for 2 weeks

4.Adult Flies for 3 days and they cannot eat. They just mate and lay eggs  for the time that they can live.

     

                                                                                        www.waitomo.com  

                                                

You can go see glow worms at the Waitomo caves. It takes 3 hours and 47 minutes from Hastings. Please try not to danger this species in any way or form please.

By Ethin

Cave Wetas

Cave Wetas

There are over 60 species of cave weta. They belong to the Phaphidophoridea family.

Appearance

The Cave Weta have long slender legs that the can jump up to two meters with. They have very large heads and the have large antennas. Every weta has its own size and shape.

LIfe Cycle

The cave weta can live up to two years and they female can lay up to 6 eggs. They freeze in the winter and heat in the spring. They leave their eggs in the cave or dark place and leave them for 6 to 8 weeks.

Food

Cave Wetas eat stuff like plants and fruit because   They are herbivores. They don’t just eat plants. They eat Plants, Fruit, Leaves and Dead Insects.

Population

The cave weta Have 60 species in New Zealand, North Africa and South Africa.

Habitat

The Cave wetas Habitat is of course Caves and dark places. They are nocturnal so that they only come out at night. Thats why they live in caves and Dark Places. They like warm places.

Predators

The cave wetas predators are Rats, Bats, Reptiles and Birds

Cave wetas are endangered so do not hurt them in any way or form.

Templeton History

James Templeton Married Margaret Wilson in March 1794. They had 10 children  one was John Templeton

John Templeton born in dreghorn, Ayrshire Scotland (1769-1881) He married Martha kenneth who was born in Kilwinning, Ayrshire Scotland(1812-1881) in 1842 and had 6 children. Their second youngest Child was William Templeton

William Templeton was born in Meiklewood, Kilmarnock in Scotland in 1852. He married Margret

Campbell in Waimate NZ in 1885. As he does not appear on the Government Assisted Immigrants List it appears that he was wealthy enough to afford the afford the fare himself. arrived 1883(Approx 14 pounds at the time) or was sponsored by another person, possibly his future father in law as he worked on his farm as a ploughman. He and Margret had five sons and one daughter. After the first child was born the family moved to Havelock North where he worked as a road overseer for the Hawkes Bay County Council. He died in November 1915  

The fourth child was David Muir Templeton born in 1894 in Havelock North and named after his mothers brother. He married Doris Jensen and had three children the last one was Bob or Poppa. He spent most of his working life as a shepherd on farms in the Hawkes Bay area and lived at Whakatu. He also served as a soldier In the first world war(Photo Below) where he manned Vickers Machine Guns. After being wounded when a bullet shattered his elbow. He was repatriated and spent some time in rehab. He died in 1964.

Bob Templeton Married Heather Sinclair in 1966 and has three children, David, Louise and Greg. Bob worked as a carpenter or orchardist for most of his working life before retiring to Havelock North.

David Templeton  married Nicky Gotham in 1991 and has 2 children Alex and Brain.. He works as a I.T consultant.

Louise Templeton has one child Mason. She works in the Building  Industruy

Greg Templeton has four children Sage,Ethin, Xavier and Wyatt. He works in the Engineering Industry.

Ethin Templeton was born in 2003 and goes to Parkvale Primary School. He has One sister And 2 half Brothers.

Keirunga Park Railway

Honk went a horn of a diesel locomotive. I was excited when I got there. I  saw a man named Terrig setting up  his locomotive. His loco and my Dads loco were chained together and I moved my Dads train not knowing that it was  Still coupled up to Terrig’s loco.   Once it was uncoupled I had to walk over the unstable  Turntable for a minute and trust me it wasn't fun. It was hard to push because the pump was engaged. Then it was where it was supposed to be.

Xavier, Me and Dad love trains and Xavier tries to help Dad get it ready for later that day. I was a the controls Putting the reaves up or down. It took Dad 20 pulles of the cord to get the train going then it went for a minute. He got really angry and even yelled in a grant. When Terrig came over he helped and thought that it was the spark plug. Once Dad had another go he checked the everything was all good. Funny that he filled the tank  with gas and forgot to let the gas go to the motor. No wonder why it didn’t go.  He blamed it on me.

When we got out onto the track it went fine. 4 laps later it was turn to drive a little bit. On my 6 go the signalman flicked the  points on me. It sounded like a machine gun  in slow motion.  It took 5 minutes to put back on the right track.  the track got wet when I went back out the track. It  started to bucket down. I was soaked. My Dad had to take some passengers so I had to come off. When he was coming onto the station he jumped off because it was too slippery.

It came to the end of the day and I went around the track to take in the signals around the track. They were in really hard. Super hard. The train had to  stop and start every 30 meters because thats how far apart the signals are. Then I had to carry 2 semaphore signals and they were heavy as a  elephant. Then I  had to go Into a shed that was only a meter tall and I was the  only  one that could fit into it. This was because  a log book needed to go under the drivers seat. It was hard because there were two tracks on  slim bit’s of wood. Then I went home to my Mum and sat down and relaxed.

The End

                                                                                                             

Comic Life Person

This is all about me  in a Digi way !!!!

My Biggest Achievement

Plop goes another drop of water. My step Dad,Mum,Sister and Step Brother were swimming lengths around the pool.   I  wouldn't dream of swimming that far. That's seven meters.

I didn't realize how big the pool was from in the deep end. It looks like eight meters. As soon as my Sister came around I was into it. 

The first time I went like a diver getting through the sea. The second time I did freestyle. I couldn't believe I achieved that.