Common walkingstick
The common walkingstick is a long, thin insect that looks just like a twig. It has no wings and moves slowly through the treetops. When it rests, it stretches its front legs forward, so it looks even more like a stick.
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Fun facts
Males are brown, while the bigger females are greenish brown.
It eats mostly at night, between about 9 in the evening and 3 in the morning.
The mother simply drops her eggs one by one onto the forest floor, where they wait through the winter.
It is the only stick insect that lives in Canada.
Its feelers are two thirds as long as its body.
Most asked questions about Common walkingstick
?Can the common walkingstick fly?
No, it has no wings. It walks slowly from leaf to leaf.
?What does a walkingstick eat?
Tree leaves, mostly from oak and hazel trees, and also black cherry and black locust.
?How big is a common walkingstick?
Males are about 7.5 centimetres long and females about 9.5 centimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Diapheromera femorata
- Group
- Stick and leaf insects
- Family
- Diapheromeridae
- Classification
- Insecta > Phasmatodea > Diapheromeridae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Northern walkingstick
Where the facts come from
- Common walkingstick (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Andrew C. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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