Rare Australian stick insect eggs flown to Bristol in bid to save species

Bristol zoo gets Lord Howe Island stick insect eggs in hopes of raising a colony 10,000 miles from Tasman Sea home

Three hundred tiny eggs - carefully packed in sterilised sand - have been flown from Australia to the UK as part of an attempt to save one of the world's rarest insects.

Bristol Zoo Gardens has taken delivery of the consignment of Lord Howe Island stick insect eggs and hopes to raise a colony of the intriguing creatures 10,000 miles from their home in the Tasman Sea.