Vietnamese stick insect
The Vietnamese stick insect looks just like a brown twig with legs. It has no wings at all. Females even have two little horns on their head and tiny points on their legs that look like thorns.
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Fun facts
Almost all of them are females. A mother can have babies without a father, so males are very rare.
If a leg gets stuck or grabbed, it can let it fall off. A new leg grows back after a molt or two.
A female drops hundreds of eggs onto the forest floor. They look speckled black and white.
Babies are light tan, and they turn green and then brown as they grow.
It only lives for about 5 to 7 months.
Most asked questions about Vietnamese stick insect
?What do Vietnamese stick insects eat?
Leaves, such as bramble, hawthorn, oak, maple and rose.
?How big is a Vietnamese stick insect?
About 10 to 12 centimetres long.
?How long do Vietnamese stick insects live?
About 5 to 7 months.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Medauroidea extradentata
- Group
- Stick and leaf insects
- Family
- Phasmatidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Phasmatodea > Phasmatidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Vietnamese walking stick, Annam walking stick
Where the facts come from
- Medauroidea extradentata (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 Jacek Halicki. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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