Hook - 6-29-2010 at 08:35 PM
This one is 8 inches from head to tail.
noproblemo2 - 6-29-2010 at 08:37 PM
OMG !!!!
Glad it's you instead of me, can't stand the things..
tjBill - 6-29-2010 at 10:03 PM
That's neat.; never seen a stick insect before.
bacquito - 6-30-2010 at 08:04 PM
8"-WOW, big bug!
bajafam - 6-30-2010 at 08:14 PM
What a beautiful specimen!! Those guys are so cool!!
Skipjack Joe - 7-13-2010 at 07:37 PM
There I was squatting, immersed in my private pleasure when I spotted the dry grass moving no more than a foot in front of me. My eyes focused and
darn if there weren't moving parts to this blade of grass. It stopped moving but too late. It had revealed itself. I watched it with great interest
for several minutes. Did it know someone was looking?
Well, soon it came time to take care of 'matters'. I took one last look trying to memorize the exact image before taking my eyes off. Twenty seconds
later I looked up again and it was gone. Vanished. I searched for what must have been 5 minutes for it but in vain. I knew I was staring right at it
but just couldn't see it. I went back in my mind and tried to find the exact grass I had put to memory and eventually saw it. I felt it's movements in
my palm as I plucked it off the ground and knew it was real and not imagined.
[Edited on 7-14-2010 by Skipjack Joe]
DianaT - 7-13-2010 at 08:12 PM
Never seen a walking stick that big! Good one!
Barbareno - 7-14-2010 at 06:11 AM
Eeeeeeek
Cyanide41 - 7-14-2010 at 08:42 AM
that's more like a walking branch!
Jack Swords - 7-14-2010 at 03:31 PM
These guys have become established here in San Luis Obispo County and are pests. Sad to have such a neat insect treated to insecticides. They are
hermaphroditic so don't need to mate. No, I didn't bring them in, thought about it tho. They are found in an area near Morro Bay.