urbpan: (dandelion)
2013-03-04 05:45 pm

Los Angeles vacation 3/1, part two: Natural History Museum

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Here is my wonderful entomologist friend [livejournal.com profile] rockbalancer taking us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Natural History Museum. She's holding an insect with astounding cryptic shape and color making it look like a damaged leaf. These are in the same group as walking sticks--us bug nerds call them all "phasmids."
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urbpan: (stick insect)
2006-10-30 12:35 pm
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Stick insect

I found this guy (actually, I think it's a female) on the train tracks in Lincoln.