Woodland Zone
If you go down to the woods today….you’ll find all sorts of amazing insects! The woodland habitat is rich with all sorts of bugs. Ones that live in trees, ones that eat trees and ones that even look like trees!
You’ll be a super spy if you can see through the disguise of the Macleay’s Spectre Stick Insect, and no insectarium would be complete without the Black Widow Spider, a scary lady who has an interesting way of treating her partners. Also living with us is the Giant Fregate Beetle, one of the largest beetles in the world that can stain human skin purple!
BUGS OF THE WOODLAND
Redback Spider
The Redback spider (Latrodectus hasselti) is a potentially dangerous spider native to Australia. It resembles a Black widow spider.
Snail
The word snail is a common name for almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage.
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STICK INSECT FACTS...
- Phasmida is the latin name for stick insects.
- Phasmids are relatively large, elongated insects.
- Phasmids are herbivorous.
- Many species are wingless.
DID YOU KNOW?
Ichneumon wasp species are highly diverse - ranging from 3 mm (1/8-inch) to 13 cm (5 inches) long.
Charles Darwin found the grisly life cycles of ichneumons wasps incompatible with the central notion of natural theology which saw the study of nature as a way to demonstrate God's benevolence.