1 October 2012
Monday macrobug: Walking stick
Posted by Callan Bentley
Usually the bugs I photograph are outside. But this guy was on the leg of the coffee table in our living room! How he got in, I have no idea. Pencil eraser for scale.
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Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
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I did a double-take at this photo: a four-legged insect? After a little more thinking, I suppose those “feelers” that seem to be sprouting from its head are actually the third set of legs, originating from close to, but behind the head, on the ventral surface. Correct?
Yes, right: there are two of the legs stretched out front, extending the stick like form another few inches. Parallel to them are the equally long and skinny antennae.