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  malaeng phi

 

Thailand

This small predatory bug, disguised as a green bamboo twig, is a Siam Slender Stick Insect, with the scientific name Ramulus siamensis. In Thai these camouflage insects are known generally as malaeng phi, literally ‘ghost insects’.

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