10 May 2009

"I spy, with my little eye..."


This looks like a walking stick (credit), but as reader Thorke Ostergaard notes, it "is not a walking stick/stick insect (Phasmatodea), but a stick grasshopper/horsehead grasshopper (Proscopiidae)."

You learn something every day.

2 comments:

  1. The curious critter is not a walking stick/stick insect (Phasmatodea), but a stick grasshopper/horsehead grasshopper (Proscopiidae) :-)

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    1. I've updated the post with your information. Thanks, Thorke. :-)

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