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From a series of photographs that I shot of a hatching insect egg, clock-wise from top left. I have also numbered the photographs in sequence.
I had found the eggs laid on the leaf 9 days ago on 27th May, 2007, see picture.
After nine days of patience I was rewarded with these photographs. I just hope that I am lucky enough to be able to photograph the rest of its life cycle.
I am still not sure what it is going to turn into.
I found this, what I thought was a digger wasp hanging about a wall in my garden. However, I have since been corrected by jel 1969 and bleu.geo with two different suggestions.. so I'll leave it as `Wasp' just now :) Tthank you for help with ID :)
As its name suggests, the stick insect resembles the twigs amongst which it lives, providing it with one of the most efficient natural camouflages on Earth.
Stick insects, like praying mantis, show rocking behaviour in which the insect makes rhythmic, repetitive side-to-side movements. Functions proposed for this suggest resemblance to vegetation moving in the wind.
Found predominantly in the tropics and subtropics. Stick insects thrive in forests and grasslands, where they feed on leaves. Mainly nocturnal creatures, they spend much of their day motionless, hidden under plants.
Extracted from National Geographic Website
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I believe this insect to be the cause of a weird hissing noise we occaisionally heard coming from the sun room.
This mating pair of stick insects crash-landed on my car when it was parked in bushland; they do fly while conjoined, but very badly. See 'Stick Insects 1482' nearby for the same pair after lurching off into more natural habitat. They are possibly the Black-striped Stick Insect, Austrosipyloidea carterus. Townsville hinterland, April 2010.