Margin-winged stick insect
The margin-winged stick insect looks just like a eucalyptus twig. It can grow up to 20 centimetres long, longer than a pencil. The males are slim and can fly, the females are bigger with blackish back wings.
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Fun facts
Its eggs look like little plant seeds.
The mother flicks her eggs onto the ground. Ants carry them to their nest, where the eggs hatch.
Females can have babies without any males.
Its head and legs are light pinkish brown, and its body is blackish green.
It has very long tail feelers at the end of its body.
Most asked questions about Margin-winged stick insect
?How big is the margin-winged stick insect?
It can grow up to about 20 centimetres long.
?What does the margin-winged stick insect eat?
Eucalyptus leaves and leaves of some other trees.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ctenomorpha marginipennis
- Named by
- Gray, 1833
- Group
- Stick and leaf insects
- Family
- Phasmatidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Phasmida > Phasmatidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Ctenomorpha marginipennis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
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