New Zealand Invertebrates

DSC_0670 Prickly stick insect (Acanthoxyla prasina 'speciosa') this brown, green and pink morph is one of the most attractively patterned of our stick insects. This genus is very unusual as all populations are female and they reproduce by parthenogenesis. Makarora *

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