Here’s what it’s like to breed one of the world’s largest insects - They’re nearly 60 cm long!
by Maik Fiedel, The Conversation
It’s not often you get to raise a clutch of stick insects that can grow to nearly 60 cm long. But I was given the rare privilege of doing so recently when I nursed the batch of eggs laid by the longest Australian phasmid stick insect, Ctenomorpha gargantua, nicknamed ‘Lady Gaga-ntuan’. Lady Gaga (for short) was discovered and collected in January 2014 and laid 12 eggs during her remaining weeks of captivity. Almost nothing is known about this species’ biology, and despite its size, females seem to be very elusive...
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photograph by Mark Fiedel, Melbourne Museum