Titan stick insect
The titan stick insect is a giant stick insect from Australia, as long as a school ruler. It is pale brown and grey, just like a twig. People once thought it was the longest stick insect in the whole world.
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Fun facts
Its body can grow up to 26 centimetres long.
Females are bigger than males and cannot fly, but males can.
One female laid over 2,050 eggs, more than any other stick insect ever recorded.
The mother flicks her eggs to the ground. Ants carry them to their nest to eat a little white blob on each egg, and the egg hatches safely there.
It is the third-longest stick insect in Australia.
Most asked questions about Titan stick insect
?How big is the titan stick insect?
Its body can be up to 26 centimetres long, about as long as a ruler.
?Is the titan stick insect the longest in the world?
Not any more. People used to think so, but longer ones have been found.
?Can titan stick insects fly?
The males can fly, but the bigger females cannot.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Acrophylla titan
- Named by
- Macleay, 1826
- Group
- Stick and leaf insects
- Family
- Phasmatidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Phasmatodea > Phasmatidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Acrophylla titan (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by BJinsect at English Wikipedia. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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