Garden Pests and Diseases: Friend or Foe?, 1 by ceejaytown

ceejaytown wrote:
This is a pair of Two-lined Walkingsticks, Anisomorpha buprestoides, also known as Musk-Mares or Devil Riders because of their habit of remaining in coitus for extremely long periods of time. The male is much smaller than the female. They don't bite but they can spray a noxious substance from their necks that is painful if it gets in your eye - can even temporarily blind a person. I didn't know this when I took the photo. Luckily, I didn't have a problem. BTW, their heads are towards the bottom of the photo, rear ends toward the top. LOL It took me some time to figure that out. BTW, she was about 4 1/2 inches long.

This message was edited Oct 12, 2006 11:22 AM