Saturday 22 March 2014

Inverts in the News: Scientists from the Museum of Victoria have rediscovered Australia's longest stick insect near Cairns

From news.com.au: Scientists from the Museum of Victoria have rediscovered Australia's longest stick insect near Cairns


Museum Victoria live exhibits keeper Maik Fiedel with "Lady Gaga-ntuan", a half a metre long stick insect rediscovered in rainforest near Cairns. 

Her name is Lady Gaga-ntuan and she was definitely born this way.

Scientists from the Museum of Victoria have rediscovered Australia’s longest stick insect near Cairns, during an expedition into the rainforest in January, reports the Townsville Bulletin .

Measuring half a metre long, the insect is only the third female Gargantuan Stick Insect (Ctenomorpha gargantua) specimen to ever be found.

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