{"id":3090,"date":"2010-10-05T12:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T16:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:01","slug":"the-biggest-stick-insect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/the-biggest-stick-insect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Stick Insect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A giant stick insect (we mean GIANT) was discovered in Borneo in 2008. It&#8217;s called Chan&#8217;s Megastick and measures 57 centimetres long!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-31438\" alt=\"stick_insect2\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/stick_insect2.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/stick_insect2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/stick_insect2-300x75.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/species.asu.edu\/2009_species02\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/species.asu.edu\/2009_species02<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2890 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"2010_biodiversity_logo_convention\" alt=\"biodiversity logo convention 2010\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png\" width=\"580\" height=\"95\" align=\"aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention.png 920w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-300x48.png 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-768x125.png 768w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010_biodiversity_logo_convention-696x113.png 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2010 is the Year of Biodiversity and <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Earth Rangers<\/span><\/strong><strong> has teamed up with <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The United Nations Convention<\/span><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">on Biological Diversity<\/span><\/strong><strong> to bring you a daily dose of <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1223\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">biodiversity basics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Earth Rangers<\/span><\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">educate<\/span><\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">games<\/span><\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">amazing facts<\/span><\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">animal ambassadors<\/span><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">fundraise<\/span><\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">biodiversity<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet the megastick!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[12,112,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-3090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-borneo","11":"tag-insect","12":"tag-united-nations"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}