Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Peppermint stick insect
Peppermint stick insect
The peppermint stick insect (Megacrania batesii) is a bluish-green coloured stick insect. When disturbed they emit a milky substance with a peppermint smell from a gland at the front of the thorax. They use only their front two pairs of legs for moving around the tree, and do use their hindlegs at all. Both males and females have small wings and do not fly.
This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
0
Improve it
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Computer Category: Computer science
Chinese room
A thought experiment developed by John Searle. It attempts to show that computers cannot 'understand' things in the same way that humans do, instead, ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
Browers Terms By Category
- Investment banking(1768)
- Personal banking(1136)
- General banking(390)
- Mergers & acquisitions(316)
- Mortgage(171)
- Initial public offering(137)
Banking(4013) Terms
- Cardboard boxes(1)
- Wrapping paper(1)
Paper packaging(2) Terms
- Satellites(455)
- Space flight(332)
- Control systems(178)
- Space shuttle(72)
Aerospace(1037) Terms
- Hand tools(59)
- Garden tools(45)
- General tools(10)
- Construction tools(2)
- Paint brush(1)
Tools(117) Terms
- General seafood(50)
- Shellfish(1)