Meet the Essig Museum’s walkingsticks.
Watch this KQED Deep Look episode featuring our Australian spectres (Extatosoma tiaratum).
Watch the KQED Deep Look episode featuring our Indian walkingsticks (Carausius morosus).
Captive colonies of Giant Malaysian leaf insects (Phyllium giganteum) are known almost exclusively from females. But this year a “male” (left) emerged in our population (males appearing in all female populations are usually non-functional genetic anomalies). In nature, males and females both are very cryptic and hard to find, but sometimes males are attracted to lights. To learn more about leaf insects watch the Essig Brunch seminar presented by Royce Cumming (YouTube video).