Creature Features
Meet the walking sausage!
They have a great nickname but their story is an unhappy one. There are only an estimated 30 or less Lord Howe Island stick insects left.
They have a great nickname but their story is an unhappy one. There are only an estimated 30 or less Lord Howe Island stick insects left.
Once classified as extinct, the Lord Howe Island stick insect is now thriving in captive breeding – but more work is needed before they are no longer critically endangered.
The Lord Howe Island phasmid is the world’s rarest insect and lives only on a remote sea stack