Walking Stick

Posted by Adam (Dallas, TX, United States) on 20 June 2007 in Plants & Nature.

yes, it's an insect...not a stick, twig, or similar object

Comments (7)

Dimitrios from ATHENS, Greece

is it alive? amazing creature

20 Jun 2007 5:29am

@Dimitrios: it is alive......they are very cool to see....if it was in a tree, you wouldn't be able to tell it apart from the trees twigs and branches....

Robert from Hamburg, United States

yeah I was going to say it looks like a DEAD stick to me ....but still neat :)

20 Jun 2007 6:35am

@Robert: i'm sure they come bigger, but it was the biggest one i'd ever seen.

amy from Rocky Mountain House, Canada

Wow! I've never seen anything like this before. Cool shot!

20 Jun 2007 10:40am

@amy: Thank you

Tyler from Abilene, United States

wow, i haven't seen one of those since i was a kid!

20 Jun 2007 9:13pm

@Tyler: it was crazy...i see them in the woods a lot, but this one was huge...and hanging on the side of a shed.....in Bandera, TX

kairospix from Singapore, Singapore

wow! awesome!
i have diffculty deciding where is its head and it end!!!
i thought it might be on the right but yet there seems to be a leg growing out of what looks like its head...
so is that the head?
cool capture!

20 Jun 2007 10:50pm

@kairospix: It's head is on the right....a pair of legs grow out pretty much where the head is...it's weird