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Photo by Dan Doucette
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Field Notes

Description:

long, all green stick bug, note the strange curly thin growth coming out of its head in the second photo, not sure what that is

Habitat:

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Notes:

I spotted this in Tupana Aru reserve.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Dan Doucette
A leg eh? I wouldn't have thought it was that. Thanks for the info Albert.
AlbertKang
Dan, the curly thing is the deformed right leg. They can regrow their legs, but not right away within the next molt. It may take several molts to get the legs back and sometimes, the new molted leg is deformed.

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PublishedJuly 28, 2013

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