Sentences with phrase «large stick insects»

In the 1960s, there were various reports of sightings of large stick insects on Balls Pyramid, a rat - free rocky outcrop 14 miles from Lord Howe Island, which is off the eastern coast of Australia.

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Nothing bigger than a dragonfly got stuck: larger insects and frogs all got clean away.

In 2008, during my lecture tour in Australia, a very large, very black, very friendly Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) crawled across my hands, my face and my head.

The forests of Lord Howe Island, about 300 miles off the coast of New South Wales, Australia, were the only known home of the Lord Howe Island phasmid, also called a «stick insect» or «walking stick» — a creature about the size of a large cigar, four or five inches long and half an inch wide.

A species of stick insects, the giant leaf insect is a large and docile bug that uses cryptic coloration to avoid predators.

Small insects stick to the leaf and starve; larger ones that ingest the «glue» develop severe constipation.

The Lord Howe Island Stick Insect (Dryococelus australis: Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Eurycanthinae) is a large, flightless stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island in Stick Insect (Dryococelus australis: Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Eurycanthinae) is a large, flightless stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island inInsect (Dryococelus australis: Phasmatodea: Phasmatidae: Eurycanthinae) is a large, flightless stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island in stick insect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island ininsect once thought to be extinct but rediscovered on an island (Balls Pyramid) near Lord Howe Island in 2001.

The Lord Howe Island stick insect (Dryococelus australis) or «land lobster» is a large, flightless stick insect that was, until recently, thought to be extinct.

The glaive is a twirly stick paired with — stay with me — a robotic insect - thing that you can fire at larger enemies to collect their «essence», and the Elite Blade is a sword and shield that transforms into a gigantic greatsword, kind of like the Switch Axe.