When threatened by a predator, they will use tactics such as playing dead or shedding limbs in order to escape.
Thriving in forests and grasslands, giant prickly stick insects can be found across most of Australia.
Giant prickly stick insects are herbivores, with eucalyptus as their native food, they will also eat bramble, rose, hawthorn, oak, bayberry, and others.
The females do not require a male to produce offspring. This process is called 'parthenogenesis', when an unfertilized egg produces offspring.
Native to Australia and New Guinea, stick insects have become popular pets around the world.
Most millipedes have two pairs of legs per segment on their body, and when born, they only have 3 pairs of legs! Every time a millipede molts (sheds its old exoskeleton), it grows new segments and legs.
Found primarily in rainforests; however, can also live in coastal habitats.
Millipedes are ditritivores, meaning they primarily consume dead or decaying plant matter.
Typically only reproducing once per year, females will lay hundreds of eggs in the soil which take approximately 3 months to hatch into tiny white millipedes.
Residing primarily in the lowland parts of east Africa.