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Walking stick insect
Phasmatodea
31.1089, -97.497
Field Notes
Description:
Slender green stick like insect.
Habitat:
On second floor balcony railing in wildlife habitat yard.
Notes:
Stick insects can reproduce parthenogenetically, without the need for males.
Stick insects are a nation of Amazons, able to reproduce almost entirely without males. Unmated females produce eggs that become more females. When a male does manage to mate with a female, there's a 50/50 chance their offspring will be male. A captive female stick insect can produce hundreds of all-female offspring without ever mating. There are species of stick insects for which scientists have never found any males.
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