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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.

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