Male stick insects are often much smaller than their female counterparts.

Minas Gerais, Brazil
Stick insect eggs often mimic plant seeds. These Diapheromera eggs are dispersed by ants.

Illinois, USA
An egg emerges from the abdomen of a Northern Walking  Stick Diapheromera femorata.  The eggs fall to the forest floor where they overwinter before hatching.

Illinois, USA
Timema represents an ancient lineage of walking sticks that are more cricket-like in appearance than most other members of the order.

California, USA
Anisomorpha buprestoides - Two-Striped Walking Stick.

Archbold Biological Station, Florida, USA
Formica obscuripes ant examining eggs of the Northern Walking Stick Diapheromera femorata.  Ants find the seed-like eggs attractive and may carry them to protected overwintering sites.

Wisconsin, USA
Male stick insects are often much smaller than their female counterparts.

Minas Gerais, Brazil
Male stick insects are often much smaller than their female counterparts.

Minas Gerais, Brazil
Male stick insects are often much smaller than their female counterparts.

Minas Gerais, Brazil
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