Gallery: Sticky: New Animated Film Will Break Your Heart
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Rohan Cleave with a Lord Howe Island stick insect, *Dryococelus australis*.
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Poster for the new film featuring the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect.
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Patrick Honan, the museum scientist that figured out how to keep tree lobsters in captivity.
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Lord Howe Island Stick Insect, hatching. Rebirth of a critically endangered species.
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A newly hatched Lord Howe Island Stick Insect. From this tiny beginning, a giant insect begins.
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Wee LHISI nymph.
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Poster for the new film by Jilli Rose featuring the Lord Howe Stick Insect.
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Lord Howe Stick Insect, adult male on host plant. They eat only one species of plant.
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