#insect
#BigInsect
#locust
#katydid
#antennae

Just photographed this, what looks like a large locust, or katydid resting on our kitchen window, here in Melbourne Australia just after midnight.
A reasonable sized insect, but I was amazed by the length of its antennae so, in one of the photos, I have held a ruler up to it. Graduated in centimetres.
Does anybody know what this is?
Cheers.

I volunteered at a wildlife park a while back. One of the workers became extremely excited when she found this big bug. And then she goddam gifted it to me. Me…..a non bug type person! I was trying to be cool about it, so she’d think I was into bugs. Took it home and gifted it to my husband. 👀🙄 who is also not a bug person.

I think they’re called giant spiny leaf insects? People keep them as pets. Apparently. I ended up releasing it, as I’d been tasked with looking after the goldfish for a weekend one time and managed to overfeed them and they all died. ☹️

This is me gifting it to my husbands shoulder 😂 so I could take a photo.

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