About Walking Stick Insect

Walking sticks or stick insects are a group of highly camouflaged insects.

About walking stick insect.

Entries are listed below in alphabetical order a to z. Walkingstick order phasmida or phasmatodea also called stick insect any of about 3 000 species of slow moving insects that are green or brown in colour and bear a resemblance to twigs as a protective device some species also have sharp spines an offensive odour or the ability to force their blood which contains toxic distasteful chemicals through special joints in the exoskeleton. The insect is found in deciduous forest throughout north america where it eats many types of plant foliage even though the common walkingstick is a generalist it. The phasmatodea also known as phasmida phasmatoptera or spectra are an order of insects whose members are variously known as stick insects stick bugs walking sticks or bug sticks they are generally referred to as phasmatodeans phasmids or ghost insects phasmids in the family phylliidae are called leaf insects leaf bugs walking leaves or bug leaves.

Stick insect species often called walking sticks range in size from the tiny half inch long timema cristinae of north america to the formidable 13 inch long phobaeticus kirbyi of borneo. One of the most unique backyard insects one can come across is the walkingstick insect commonly called the stick bug. Walking stick bugs from the phasmida family look like sticks with legs and antennae or twigs attached to a small branch. There are a total of 6 walking stick insects of north america in the insect identification database.

The common walkingstick or northern walkingstick diapheromera femorata is a species of phasmid or stick insect found across north america the average length of this species is 75mm 3 in for males and 95mm 3 7 in for females. Walking stick insects of north america. Depending on the species.