Tuesday, September 22, 2009

today's photo

Green Leaf Insect!

The antenna and the eyes are the only differences between Phyllium giganteum. This insect has really got the scientist thinking. What is this insect? What species is it in? All these questions are consuming the scientists. Richard Bradley wrote a quote about this insect in the year 1759"The insect is nourished by the juices of the tree … and at the fall of the leaf, drops from the tree with the leaves growing to its body like wings, then walks about."

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