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​HELP SAVE THE LONG LOST PHASMID

Phasmid Eggs
The question "the chicken or the egg?" or as I like to say....."the Phasmid or the egg?".
Which came first?
I know that when the first adults died I had left was 21 eggs. If I didn't have those 21 eggs I am not sure if either of the two breeding groups would have survived.
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The diagram and photographs below (figures 1 to 3) show the morphological detail of phasmid eggs.
Note eggs in figure 2 & 3 are from Dryococelus australis.
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1. Description of morphological features from Clark 1976
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2. Photograph of eggs with ruler indicating size
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3. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) photograph taken by Microscopy Unit Macquarie University in 2016

Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3


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