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Gil Wizen

@wizentrop

Entomologist, macro photographer, professional keeper, wrangler and designer of live invertebrate displays.

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Jumping stick (Apioscelis tuberculata) from the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. This goofy grasshopper evolved to look and behave like a stick, very much like stick insects. However contrary to phasmids, jumping sticks are superb jumpers thanks to the muscular "drumstick" hindlegs.

Jumping stick (Apioscelis tuberculata) from the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador. This goofy grasshopper evolved to look and behave like a stick, very much like stick insects. However contrary to phasmids, jumping sticks are superb jumpers thanks to the muscular "drumstick" hindlegs.