No sex please, we're British (stick insects)
by Eleanor Ainge Roy from Science | The Guardian on (#4NFF2)
Phasmids hailing from New Zealand become asexual after arriving in the UK
A New Zealand stick insect that migrated to the UK more than seven decades ago has given up having sex and become asexual, prompting biologists to wonder about the use of sex at all - especially in Britain.
The Clitarchus hookeri is native to New Zealand but migrated to the UK some time between 1910 and 1935, catching a ride on shiploads of New Zealand plants that were transported to the subtropical Tresco Abbey Garden on the Scilly Isles islands off the coast of Cornwall.
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