Phasmids: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect

Timeline

Date Significant Event/s
1855  Species was first discovered
1916  Published first detailed observation
1918  Black rats ate nearly all the phasmids
1930  All phasmids were gone
1964  An amazing photo of a dead phasmid taken on Balls Pyramid
1969  More phasmid remains were found
2001  5 people scientific expedition to Ball Pyramid
2002  5 people rediscover phasmid on a bush in the middle of the night
2003  Two males and two female phasmids were collected on Valentine’s Day
2003  Male and female taken to Melbourne Zoo
2007  Some phasmids were returned to Lord Howe Island
2008  Melbourne Zoo returns adults phasmids
2008  Doctor Jane Goodall visited the phasmids – Melbourne Zoo
2009  Video filmed of phasmid hatching
2012  Program to kill rats
2012  Funding for school to incubate eggs
2013  20 minute movie-  Sticky
2014  A new display  set up for phasmids in Melbourne Zoo

 

Phasmid glossary

Sticky from jilli rose on Vimeo.

 

Questions

 

Here Hidden Head
Explicitly in the text

Read the clues

Read between the lines

Gather information from various parts of the text

Inferential

Opinion based on evidence

Evaluative based on details in the text

 

 

 

 

 

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