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Any entomologist will tell you that hundreds of thousands live on the planet. insects that have not yet been entered in any scientific directory. It’s almost always about tiny creatures, many of which you would hardly notice, even if they were sitting on your the palms. However, sometimes truly amazing discoveries happen. For example, to date, science did not know the insect the length of a small umbrella. This is by far the largest insect in the world from the famous science.
In the Guangxi Autonomous Region in southwest of China’s People’s Republic recently found an exotic stick sizes. This arthropod from the ghost squad immediately recognized the longest insect in the world. Caught Instance Length is sixty two and a half centimeters! Prior to this title such a record holder was held by a jungle stick Malaysia and having a length of not more than fifty-six centimeters.
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The author of the discovery was the entomologist Zhao Li, who went to the mountains with aim to find new species of insects. The specialist climbed to a height over a kilometer and at some point quite by accident noticed as a large brown-green moved on one of the trees “branch”. The scientist says that he was literally shocked when he had in his hands a huge insect with a body and limbs unprecedented length. None of the containers that were in possession of entomologist, to place such a giant was not possible, therefore Zhao Li had to go down the mountain, carrying it very carefully find in hands in front of you. The largest insect on Earth has led very energetic and fingering, trying in vain slip away from man.
The largest insect in the world has left offspring
Now a stick called Phryganistria chinensis Zhao after its discoverer, is in the Beijing Museum of Rare insects. A unique instance, to the delight of scientists, turned out to be a pregnant female who has already laid six eggs. Chinese with impatiently waiting for the offspring to hatch from them. Cubs allegedly sent to other research institutions planets – at least to London and Philadelphia.
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According to experts, one wonders how such a giant stickman has remained unnoticed by people for centuries, but it’s worth take into account the fact that stick insects living on trees and bushes in many parts of the earth are excellent maskers. They have the same color as the plants on which inhabit, while in a static form they are practically impossible to distinguish from branches under cover of leaves.
In the presence of larger creatures, ghosts are usually behave absolutely motionless. The above stick, judging by everything, was not careful enough and betrayed himself by moving and caught my eye, as if deliberately, in this place and at the moment the Chinese entomologist.
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