Stick Insect

[guppiecat]

If you volunteer at the zoo (or get an internship), you might get to hold a bug* too.

* Technically, a stick insect is not a bug because it doesn’t suck. It chews instead.

Originally posted at stories.starmind.org.

Comments

[tigertoy]

The difference between a word used in science and the same word in ordinary popular usage can cause much gnashing of teeth to people of a scientific bent. See "exponential". To say nothing of "theory".