
LAPC #44: Harmony
(or is it dissonance?)
Female Australian walking stick (extatosoma tiaratum). To avoid predators this docile insect is camouflaged to look like leaves and if threatened, will curl its tail to mimic a scorpion. The one shown here, subject of the last post, is now back in her terrarium happy to munch on eucalyptus leaves.
A dense mass of spines in a stand of Sliver (a.k.a, Wooly) Torch cactus (Cleistocactus Strausii).