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Portugese Stick Insect

Leptynia attenuata

Description:

"bicho-pau" about 10 cm brownish body like a stick, small yellow eyes, red parts in his paws long antennae

Notes:

Moved him from a wall to a blackthorn (abrunheiro) which he immediately started to eat, he was still there some hours later pretending to be a part of the plant :). This was at my friend Pedro Nicolau's house (project noah member)

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6 Comments

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

fooood hehehe

PedroNicolau
PedroNicolau 10 years ago

Minute 0:18 on repeat (with sound).

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

thank you for the info!

PedroNicolau
PedroNicolau 10 years ago

Feeding off a blackthorn (abrunheiro)!

mendes.madalena
mendes.madalena 10 years ago

yes it is! awesome place to live in

PedroNicolau
PedroNicolau 10 years ago

The video turned out great! Such a fantastic spotting.

mendes.madalena
Spotted by
mendes.madalena

Portugal

Spotted on Jul 9, 2013
Submitted on Jul 15, 2013

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