Sentences with phrase «longest stick insect»

Good news for conservationists as over 120 new species have been discovered in a protected part of Borneo, including the longest stick insect in the world, a lungless frog and a slug that shoots love darts into his mate during a bizarre courting ritual.

Not exact matches

Biologist Chris Dallmann works with stick insects, which are up to eight centimeters long.

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.

The New Zealand storm petrel and the Lord Howe Island stick insect are among the other species no longer missing.

Entomologists have long known that insects typically communicate using odors called pheromones, but they haven't been able to agree on what aggregation pheromones encourage pesky roaches to stick close to one another.

Humble stick insects may hold the answer to that long - running question in biology.