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The information below was found at The Australian Museum Online
www.austmus.gov.au/factSheets/phasmids.htm
Phasmids are insects that eat leaves and resemble leaves or sticks. They are usually green or brown but may reveal brightly coloured underwings when they fly. They have developed many unusual shapes to camouflage themselves to avoid detection by predators. The order Phasmatodea includes the longest insects in the world.
Habitat and Distribution
About 150 species of phasmids are found in Australia. They usually live in gum trees but are sometimes found in gardens on rose bushes or fruit trees. However because of their excellent camouflage, they are often overlooked. When disturbed, a phasmid may sway, imitating a dead leaf or stick swaying in the breeze. During summer many people have found stick and leaf insects in the laundry, clinging to windows, and drowned in swimming pools. The attractive green and pink Podacanthus typhon is one species that is often found.
Most species of phasmids are quite rare but a few such as Podacanthus wilkinsoni can occasionally occur in plague numbers, causing extensive damage to eucalypt forests. In the 1960s, a series of devastating outbreaks occurred in mountain forests of Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. Other species that can reach high densities include Didymuria violescens, and Ctenomorphodes tessulatus.
Appearance
Titan Stick Insect. Small male mating with a larger female. Photo: Antony Giorgini. Marked variations in body features and colours occur in many species of phasmid. Horns, spines and lobes on the abdomen or the legs, may be more or less developed, or completely absent, in the same population. Some species have green and non-green forms. Many of these features may also vary geographically, together with overall size, relative wing length, and the colour of the hind wings, if present.
The longest Australian phasmid is the Titan Stick Insect (Acrophylla titan) which can grow to 25 cm long.
Reproduction
Many female phasmids do not need to mate in order to produce fertile eggs. This form of reproduction is called parthenogenesis and all the eggs produced will hatch into females. If the females do mate with a male before producing eggs, the nymphs (babies) may be male or female.
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a Microterys seyon wasp of the Encyrtidae in the pomegranate bush in the garden - these beautiful wasps are a regular sight in autumn and winter but never seem to see them in high summer.
Another in my series of back porch insects. These are taken at night with mostly my 200mm Nikon micro lens & flash.
Chicago, Illinois
Stick Insect ... Stick Bug ... Walking Stick:
Phylliicae...Phasmida...ctenomorphodes...chronus
This one spent the better part of the day on the door frame of our house.
About eight inches long, the name is derived from Greek, meaning Phanton, Apparition.
Neurothemis fluctuans female dragonfly....very friendly.
The light colored bg was my palm :D...you can imagine how friendly that dragonfly was.
In the middle of this area Groene Weelde (green wealth) I stumbled upon a bug house, or insect hotel.
Really love them....
I think he is the bad looking tne in bug mode. Big square box with six legs.
But love his robot mode !
Close-up of the face of a stick insect. Focus stacking from 7 handheld shots.
Canon 7D Mk. II + Sigma 105mm f/2.8 + LED ring flash.
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