How about this one?

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How about this one?

Postby Contini » 08 Mar 2010, 21:44

This little green critter road home with me on my side car mirror from work. His reward for making it all the way to my place and not falling off was having his photo taken and featured on sydneynature. What kind of bug is it?

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I used my off-camera flash to light him up. I have images of him large enough to print in A3 size, I think.
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Re: How about this one?

Postby Contini » 11 Mar 2010, 20:18

Here's a grasshopper:

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Re: How about this one?

Postby enigmatic-gnome » 16 Mar 2010, 20:13

Couldn't tell you the species or anything, but the first one is some kind of stick insect. How big was it? Because it's a sub adult, one more shed of its skin until its fully grown.
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Re: How about this one?

Postby Contini » 19 Mar 2010, 13:44

I would say it was about 8 or 9cm.

I was also wondering if it was a stick bug -- thanks for confirming that!!
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Re: How about this one?

Postby enigmatic-gnome » 20 Mar 2010, 22:12

Ah, just a smallish one then... i was just trying to work out if it was a goliath stick insect or not. Its not I dont think (dont quote me on that)
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Re: How about this one?

Postby Contini » 21 Mar 2010, 19:52

Wow, I just looked that one up and those are very cool! No, it wasn't that big!!!
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