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Two-striped Walkingstick [Anisomorpha buprestoides] |
| This mating pair of Two-striped Walkingsticks were photographed along International Golf Parkway near US-1 in St. Johns County, Florida on 8/23/2015. The ability of this species to defend itself with a particularly odiferous secretion was reported as early as 1835, when Gray in describing the genus quoted an account by Thomas Say "...that when taken they discharged a milky fluid from two pores of the thorax, diffusing a strong odor..." |
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![Two-striped Walkingstick [Anisomorpha buprestoides]](bup.jpg)
