Goliath stick insect
The goliath stick insect is a giant apple-green stick insect from Australia. A big female can be about 20 centimetres long, longer than a pencil. It has yellow stripes, spiky legs and sticky pads on its feet for climbing trees.
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Fun facts
The female has big wings but is too heavy to fly. The smaller male flies well.
Under her green front wings, the female hides a bright red colour.
A mother does not need a father to lay eggs that hatch.
She flicks her eggs to the ground with her tail. Each one looks just like a plant seed.
Ants carry the eggs into their nests because of a tasty yellow cap on each egg, and there the eggs are safe.
Most asked questions about Goliath stick insect
?How big is the goliath stick insect?
Males are about 10 to 15 centimetres long and females up to about 20 centimetres.
?Can the goliath stick insect fly?
The males can fly well. The big females have wings but are too heavy to fly.
?Is the goliath stick insect dangerous?
No. It has spiky legs, but it is harmless and eats leaves.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eurycnema goliath
- Named by
- Gray, 1834
- Group
- Stick and leaf insects
- Family
- Phasmatidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Phasmatodea > Phasmatidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Regal stick insect
Where the facts come from
- Eurycnema goliath (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Finalion. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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