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stick insect: see walking stick walking stick or stick insect, names applied to extremely longbodied, slow-moving, herbivorous insects , forming a single family in the order Phasmatodea. ..... Click the link for more information. . stick insect any of various mostly tropical insects of the family Phasmidae that have an elongated cylindrical body and long legs and resemble twigs: order Phasmida How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I don't think [actresses] are supposed to look like stick insects. Entomologists decided that stick insects might have done something once thought impossible: lost a complicated trait, their wings, in the course of evolution but recovered it millions of years later (163: 35). The edifice collapsed and the few stick insects that had not already died from eating the pesticide-coated plants, had to be removed. |
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