Growing up

Major excitement today. For a while, we've been peering in at the babies and thinking that maybe this one or that one looks a little bigger, but it's hard to tell. When spiny leaf insects moult, they usually eat their skin, so the only evidence it's happened is that they look a bit bigger. We caught one today with its skin, still intact, on the other side of the leaf. Ms Jaz snapped this photo.

It's legs are a lot different to the babies, with those obvious leaf structures rather than the thin ant-like legs. So now we know what to look for it'll be a lot easier to spot.