female Common Predatory Bush-cricket (Sago pedo) in a thorny bush

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Sago pedo is Europe's largest insect. They are exclusively female and reproduce by parthenogenesis so all offspring are essentially clones of their mother.

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Size: 5472px × 3648px
Location: Napi, Lesbos, Greece
Photo credit: © Ray Wilson / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: arthropod, arthropoda, bush, bush-cricket, bushcricket, clone, common, europe, european, female, grasshopper, greece, green, insect, invertebrate, katydid, lesbos, lesvos, orthoptera, orthopteran, parthenogenesis, parthenogenic, pedo, predatory, sago, tettigoniidae, thorny