The teeniest of stick insects

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Oh boy, the things I find floating in the sink here :D

I was washing some parsley and I found the teeniest wittle stick insect floating in the water.
The poor thing was in there for over half an hour, seemed dead and broken up, but I fished it out anyway.
It had lost one leg, but as soon as it dried up a bit, it became very lively, crawling around my hand happily, so I decided to take it outside and let it go free in the bush near the garden.

I had no idea stick insects lived out in the wild here (or anywhere else outside biology classrooms for that matter), and my mother-in-law says there will be plenty of really big ones on and around the house during summer. Yay!!!





Pics taken today by moi.