insect camo
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Take a look at the brown stuff all over the fronds of this young cabbage palm. Looks to me like some dead plant matter got caught in there somehow.
Hmm. Let’s peer a little closer.
Figured out yet what you’re looking at?
It’s a walking stick orgy: an uncountable number of mating pairs of two-lined walking sticks, Anisomorpha buprestoides, all piled on top of each other. Toto, I don’t think we’re in Ohio anymore.
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I have a few Walking Sticks but never that many at one time. Cool!!!
Nice find- I wonder why they chose that location for their, er, gathering.
They make good pets, but watch out for their poison spray!
Poison spray? Eek!
They have a pair of glands behind the head that can release a spray of poison behind them, so they need to be handled with some care. Its not terribly dangerous, but you have to be careful not to hold them near your eyes.