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Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 2 - Insects. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1984.

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1.) European mole cricket (Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa)

2.) European stick insect (Bacillus rossius)

3.) Anchiale maculata

4.) Seychelles leaf insect (Pulchriphyllium bioculatum)

5.) European mantis (Mantis religiosa)

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Attack Of Caterpillars

Juvenile invasive caterpillars of the tussock moth (Euproctis spp.) feeding on a Sonnerati alba mangrove leaf in Seychelles. The unintentional introduction of non-native species can have devastating effects on local flora and fauna.

By Christophe Mason Parker, Seychelles

Mangrove Photography Awards

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Animal of the Day!

Seychelles Leaf Insect (Pulchriphyllium bioculatum)

(Photo in Public Domain)

Conservation Status- Least Concern

Habitat- Asia

Size (Weight/Length)- 92 mm

Diet- Leaves

Cool Facts- The Seychelles leaf insect was the first leaf insect to be discovered by modern scientists. Masters of camouflage, these leaf insects resemble mango leaves and are nearly invisibly when stationary. Males have delicate wings and allow them to fly but females are much heavier and unable to take flight. While looking like a leaf, Seychelles leaf insects eat exclusively leaves, mostly guava and mango leaves. While capable of sexual reproduction, producing male and female offspring, most females reproduce asexually and produce all female offspring.

Rating- 11/10 (Honestly, I would be terrified if a leaf I picked up turned out to be an insect.)

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Nepenthes

Tropical pitcher plants formally know as Nepenthes or my favorite monkey cups, are another genus of carnivorous plants with pitfall traps Higher classification is Nepenthaceae. There are about 130 species that are spread out, and can be found in China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Madagascar, Seychelles, Australia, India, Borneo and Sumatra. The nickname “monkey cups” comes from the fact that monkeys have often been observed drinking rain water from them. Most species of Nepenthes are tall creepers, with a shallow root system (10-15m). From the stem you will often see sword like leaves growing, with a tendril (often used for climbing) protruding from the tip of the leaf. The pitcher forms first as a small bulb, Next expands and forms the cup. The trap contains fluid, produced by the plant, which may be watery or syrupy and is used to drown and digest the insects. The lower part of the cup contains glands that absorb and gives off nutrients. Most of these plants are small and tend to trap only insects, but some larger species, such as Nepenthes Rajah and Nepenthes Rafflesiana , have been documented to catch small mammals such as rats. 

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What is your definition of “natural”? According to biology, the definition is existing in or caused by nature; not made or caused by humankind. 

Nature doesn’t follow your heteronormative definition. An example, whip tail lizards (C. inornatus, C. neomexicanus and C. tigris), are a female-only species that reproduces by producing an egg through parthenogenesis. Despite reproducing asexually, and being an all-female species, the whiptail still engages in mating behavior with other females of its own species. You want to know some more mammals that have been known to exhibit homosexual behavior? The Bison, Brown bear, Brown rat, Chimpanzee, Common dolphin, Common marmoset, Elephant, Fox, Giraffe, Goat, Koala, Lion, Orca, Panda, and Raccoon. How about some birds? Here we have Barn owl, Chicken, Common gull, Emu, House sparrow, Kestrel, King penguin, Mallard, Ostrich, Raven, Rock dove, Seagull, Swan, Turkey, and Vulture. Is that not enough? How about some fish? We’ve got the Amazon molly, Blackstripe topminnow, Bluegill sunfish, Char, Grayling, European bitterling, Green swordtail, Guiana leaffish, Houting whitefish, Jewel fish, Least darter (Microperca punctulata), Mouthbreeding fish, Southern platyfish, Ten-spined stickleback, Three-spined stickleback. But wait! I haven’t even talked about my personal favorite (y’know, working towards herpetology and all), the reptiles! There is the Anole, Bearded dragon, Blue-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma cepediana), Broad-headed skink, Checkered whiptail lizard, Chihuahuan spotted whiptail lizard, Common ameiva, Common garter snake, Cuban green anole, Desert grassland whiptail lizard, Desert tortoise, Fence lizard, Five-lined skink, Gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda), Gopher (pine) snake, Inagua curlytail lizard, Jamaican giant anole, Laredo striped whiptail lizard, Largehead anole, Mourning gecko, Plateau striped whiptail lizard, Red diamond rattlesnake, Red-tailed skink, Seychelles giant tortoise, Side-blotched lizard, Speckled rattlesnake, Water moccasin, Western rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis), Western banded gecko, and Wood turtle. But wait, there’s more! The insects and amphibians! Alfalfa weevil, Australian parasitic wasp, Bean weevil, Bedbug, Blister beetle, Blowfly, Broadwinged damselfly, Cabbage (small) white (butterfly), Checkerspot butterfly, Club-tailed dragonfly, Cockroach, Common skimmer dragonfly, Creeping water bug, Cutworm, Digger bee, Dragonfly, Eastern giant ichneumon wasp, Eucalyptus longhorned borer, Field cricket, Flour beetle, Fruit fly, Glasswing butterfly, Hypoponera opacior ant, Grape berry moth, Grape borer, Green lacewing, Hen flea, House fly, Ichneumon wasp, Japanese scarab beetle, Larch bud moth, Large milkweed bug, Large white, Long-legged fly, Mazarine blue, Mexican white (butterfly), Midge, Migratory locust, Monarch butterfly, Narrow-winged damselfly, Parsnip leaf miner, Pomace fly, Queen butterfly, Red ant, Red flour beetle, Reindeer warble fly (Hypoderma tarandi), Rose chafer(Macrodactylus subspinosus), Rove beetle, Scarab beetle, Screwworm fly, Silkworm moth, Southeastern blueberry bee, Southern green stink bug, Southern masked chafer, Southern one-year canegrub, Spreadwinged damselfly, Spruce budworm moth, Stable fly, Stag beetle, Tsetse fly, Water boatman bug, Water strider, Appalachian woodland salamander, Black-spotted frog, Mountain dusky salamander, and the Tengger desert toad.

I have more too, if you’re actually interested in animals exhibiting homosexual behavior, y’know, because it’s natural and present in nature and animal behavior. 

But Nature doesn’t agree, so stop trying to use biology as an excuse to be homophobic. What was it that you said? “It’s simply stating the cold, hard facts”? 

Same sex marriage support in the United States.

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