Tessellated stick insect

The females have short wings and cannot fly, but the males have long wings and can.

A female can lay eggs without a male, and all the babies from those eggs are girls.

The mother flicks her tiny black eggs to the ground. Ants carry them to their nest, where they later hatch.

Its eggs are only 3 millimetres long, shiny black with a little white cap.

In the mating season the grown-up males rush around in a very busy, wild way.