I have a seen a large stick insect with a smaller stick insect on its back. Is it a baby or mating?
Submitted by Ed Baker on Tue, 24/11/2009 - 11:17am
Stick insects do not show any level of parental care (apart from the fact that some species selectively position their eggs). This will almost certainly be a mating pair, the male being the smaller individual that is on top.
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The heaviest recorded specimen at a PSG meeting (belonging to Kristien Rabaey and Rob Simoens) weighed in at 49.2g (Smith, 2007), but culture stocks are likely to be significantly smaller than wild specimens are.
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