Fusing art and science, documentary and animation – Jilli Rose has made a wonderful short film about the Lord Howe Stick Insect while working on international museum projects. All from her bedroom in Castlemaine, north of Melbourne.
At 15cm, the Lord Howe Stick Insect is an impressive beast. It lives quietly on vegetation, and the males bond with the females, and follow them. By the time the invading rats had finished eating them on the island in 1920, they joined the list of extinct species.
