Walking_Sticks

Walking Sticks There are nearly 3 000 species of walking sticks in the world all of which feed exclusively on vegetation. Walking Sticks are insects and belong to the Orthoptera order. This order includes grasshoppers, crickets, praying mantises, and cockroaches. Walking sticks are suborder phasmatodea, family phasmatidea . Many walking sticks are parthenogenetic which means the population consists almost exclusively of females. The females can lay fertile eggs (without mating) which develop into more females. Their eggs are oval in shape, dark brown, and have a light-colored knob at one end. When they hatch, this knob comes off and the walking stick climbs out. The eggs hatch after 10-12 weeks with no incubation. All walking sticks lay eggs, some drop them onto the ground, some stick them under tree bark or into crevices and some bury them in the ground. It is important to make sure that your sticks always have plenty of fresh food, and it is advisable to make sure you take vegetation that you feed your walking stick from a reliable source. Many a walking walking, stick, sticks, eggs, species, lay, insect, females, wings, vegetation, sure, should, pink, order, make, knob, insects, hatch, ground, feed, exclusively, american, young, world, without, weeks, very, unwashed, unknowing, under, tree, times, thorn, tend, temporary, taken