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stick insect
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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. Walking sticks have green, gray, or brown bodies that closely resemble twigs or grass stems.
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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


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CHILDREN in Miss Marshall's class at Belmont Primary School in Guisborough have six stick insects for pets.
GIANT stick insects and beautiful butterflies were among the creepy crawlies which visited St Augustine's Primary School in Radford.
To improve their camouflage, stick insects have been observed to change colour to suit the plant they happen to be sitting on.
 
 
 
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