Did you know...

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Date: 11 August 2007 23:45:41

...that a stick insect can shed its skin?

I didn't. Until I saw Sticky's (or it could have been Wicket's) old skin hanging from one of the leaves today.

They go back home tomorrow. Stick insects are the most stupendously pointless pets, and for that reason I have decided they are cool. Do not think I will be getting any of my own, though, it is very hard to tell whether they have (a) escaped or (b) died. My frequent attempts to ascertain that neither of the above had happened on my watch were bordering on the obsessive...

...as T&E will attest!