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Stick Insect Range
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Type: Bug Diet: Herbivore Average life span in the wild: Up to 3 years Size: 0.46 to 12.9 in (11.6 to 328 mm) Did you know?

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Walking Stick - or stick insect, names applied to extremely longbodied, slow-moving, herbivorous insects, forming a single family in the order Phasmatodea. Walking sticks have green, gray, or brown bodies that...

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Stick insects, are plant-feeding insects so named because they are very long and slender and resemble sticks or twigs ...

Before the stick insects can be re-introduced to Lord Howe Island, there would have to be a thorough and successful program to eradicate rats from the island.

Stick insects are very rich in nutrition and make excellent meals for various predators. Predators include: birds, reptiles, spiders, bats and primates.

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Wallace's stick insect (Neopromachus wallacei)
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Class: Insecta
Status: IUCN: Not listed; CITES: Not listed
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A giant flightless stick insect over 12 cm in length. The adult is a honey-brown colour with a white stripe down the side, while young animals are bright green.
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Like many insects, stick insects can regenerate lost appendages over the course of several molts.

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These are mostly insects, including grasshoppers and crickets, cockroaches, praying mantises, stick insects and the larvae of butterflies and moths. In addition antbirds often take spiders, scorpions and centipedes.

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Grasshoppers, katydids, crickets, roaches, mantises, stick insects
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Although the primary food source is nectar, they will hawk large insects. I have seen them jump around and beat the bush to disturb stick insects and cicadas.

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These insects are originally from Europe and are now found throughout the United States. They do not bite humans or spread disease. The Praying Mantids closest relatives are stick insects, grasshoppers, and cockroaches.

See also: Beetle, Grasshoppers, Roach, Grasshopper, Katydid