I am usually found on bushes or in small trees.
What does a baby walking stick look like.
Males tend to be smaller than females.
What i look like.
As their name suggests they look just like sticks and may even sway back and forth to more closely resemble a twig moving in the wind.
May 26 2014.
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.
There are more than 3 000 species of walking stick bugs all over the world and in diverse climates so it s not surprising that not all walking stick bugs look alike.
My specialty is camouflage.
The two striped walking stick anisomortha buprestiordes a.
What a baby stick bug looks like.
They are also called walking sticks.
Walkingsticks belong to the suborder phasmatodea family phasmatidea which includes both walkingsticks which look like sticks and leaf insects which look like leaves.
There are several thousand speices of walking stick insects and many are kept as pets.
Walking stick bugs from the phasmida family look like sticks with legs and antennae or twigs attached to a small branch.
These amazing bugs are hard to spot because they look so much like twigs until those twigs get up and walk away that is.
The colors are usually brown or green but may be grey or shades of red.
Stripes spots and speckles are more common than solid.
Also some are shaded orange but in little places.
I look like a twig and part of the plant i am on so i can hide from birds and other predators.
They escape predation by blending into plant material.
Stick insects are part of the order phasmatodea also known as phasmids and walking sticks and are most often found in subtropical tropical habitats when you can find them that is.
Depending on the species.
I will not deal with leaf insects here but they too are interesting insects.
Walking sticks or stick insects are a group of highly camouflaged insects.
Walking sticks are long thin and slow moving bugs that looks like a stick twig or branch.
I only eat leaves and stems of plants and usually only eat at night.
Mostly like an itsy bitsy little stick but with pluck.
Buprestiordes defends itself from predators people or pets by squirting a strong smelling milky like fluid reported to be painful if contacting the eyes of humans and pets.