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Extatosoma tiaratum, commonly known as the spiny leaf insect, the giant prickly stick insect, [2] Macleay's spectre, [3] or the Australian walking stick, is a large species of Australian stick insect. [4] [5] The species has the Phasmid Study Group number PSG9. [6]
Eurycantha calcarata typically reproduce through sexual reproduction and produce eggs that hatch 4.5-6.5 months later. When no males are present in the population, this stick insect exhibits parthenogenesis instead. Eggs are typically 8.2 mm in length and 4 mm wide, with a somewhat cylindrical shape.
Prickles on a blackberry branch. In plant morphology, thorns, spines, and prickles, and in general spinose structures (sometimes called spinose teeth or spinose apical processes), are hard, rigid extensions or modifications of leaves, roots, stems, or buds with sharp, stiff ends, and generally serve the same function: physically defending plants against herbivory.
The family Phylliidae (often misspelled Phyllidae) contains the extant true leaf insects or walking leaves, which include some of the most remarkably camouflaged leaf mimics (mimesis) in the entire animal kingdom. They occur from South Asia through Southeast Asia to Australia. Earlier sources treat Phylliidae as a much larger taxon, containing ...
A female leaf-footed bug, family Coreidae and tribe Acanthocephalini, deposits an egg before flying off. Coreidae is a large family of predominantly sap-sucking insects in the Hemipteran suborder Heteroptera. [1] The name "Coreidae" derives from the genus Coreus, which derives from the Ancient Greek κόρις (kóris) meaning bedbug. [2]
They hatch around 6 months after breeding. [11] Newly hatched young nymphs tend to be wingless and brown or reddish in color. They develop their green color after feeding on leaves. [12] Both the adult and larval stages are phytophagous meaning they feed on plants. [13] The main plant food sources for this species are oak and bramble tree ...
Pulchriphyllium bioculatum, [2] [1] Gray's leaf insect, [2] is a leaf insect of the family Phylliidae native to tropical Asia as well as Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles. [2] It was first described by George Robert Gray in 1832 and was the first phasmid he discovered. [3] Leaf insects have extremely flattened, irregularly shaped bodies ...
The first generation of the year is composed entirely of female fundatrices (also called stem mothers), which hatch from winter eggs laid on the bark of witch-hazel. Shortly following bud break, she begins to feed on leaf tissue. She then repeatedly “stings” the abaxial surface of the leaf to induce gall formation.