Скачать или смотреть Hatching and Life of a Giant Prickly Stick Insect (Extatosoma tiaratum)

A giant stick insect (Extatosoma tiaratum) hatches, grows and becomes adult.

This animal is a master of camouflage. The eggs resemble seeds and are carried into ant mounds by thatching ants. At birth the stick insect reseble the ants in look, colour and movements, which makes it able to escape the ant nest unharmed.

The baby stick insect then finds an eucalyptus tree where it stays for the rest of its life, feeding on the leaves. As it grows older the baby stick insect sheds its skin, changes colour and starts to resemble a leaf, moving in the breeze.

When adult. after about 6 months, it can also pretend to be a scorpion, complete with the rolled upp back and clawed fore-limbs!

In Biology this kind of behaviour is called Mimicry.

See another video of mine with the stick insect ”dance moves” here:    • Giant Prickly Stick Insect Dancing ***TURN...  

Music: Mountain Bells (ID 130) by Lobo Loco