Black Walking Stick Bug

The stick insect life cycle is hemimetabolous proceeding through a series of nymphal stages.

Black walking stick bug. They are generally referred to as phasmatodeans phasmids or ghost insects. There are a total of 6 walking stick insects of north america in the insect identification database. Walking stick insects of north america. Stick insects are so named for their effective camouflageamong the woody plants where they feed.

One of the most unique backyard insects one can come across is the walkingstick insect commonly called the stick bug. The black beauty walking stick can be differentiated from similar species by its small fore and hindwings. Males are smaller and more slender averaging 41 7 mm littig 1942. Females average 67 7 mm in length.

Adults are present in august and september in the northern part of the range but because of their tendency to feed high in the canopy the insects are seldom seen. Eurycantha horrida expels a very foul smelling fluid. They re typically brown black or green with thin stick shaped bodies that help them blend in as they perch on twigs and branches. If this camouflage fails for whatever reason some species of walking sticks have other means to protect themselves.

The black beauty walking stick has a couple of synonymous common names. Anisomorpha buprestoides is a large stout for a stick insect brown phasmid with three conspicuous longitudinal black stripes. Appearance general information this stick insect originates from peru and is popular in captivity this species will grow up to 7 9cm long and having a velvety black appearance. Phasmid in marginal forest philippines 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.

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. Peruvian black beauty walking stick and the golden eyed stick insect. 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. Entries are listed below in alphabetical order a to z.

The two striped walking stick anisomortha buprestiordes a. Another food tree is the black locust robinia pseudoacacia.