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By Ally and Ganga

By Ally and Ganga. Stick insects are thin stick like insects which live where there is enough trees (with leaves) to eat. They can be either green or brown. Even though their not very pretty they are very interesting insect to study. This is the life cycle of a stick insect. Eggs. Nymphs.

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By Ally and Ganga

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  1. By Ally and Ganga

  2. Stick insects are thin stick like insects which live where there is enough trees (with leaves) to eat. They can be either green or brown. Even though their not very pretty they are very interesting insect to study.

  3. This is the life cycle of a stick insect. Eggs Nymphs It includes three stages- eggs, nymphs and adults. Adult

  4. Which stick insects are around us? There are 3,000 species world wide and 101 species in Australia. Stick Insects mainly live in the tropics. The three New Zealand species are in UK for the last 100’s of years and nearly in the south west of England There are a lot of different types of stick insects in Australia. Some common ones are: Lord Howe Island

  5. Basic Anatomy The body shape of stick insects is usually cylindrical or flattened. They have 2 pairs of wings except species which are wingless. The wings consist of short, hardened forewings which protect a part of the larger, membranous, which mean transparent, hind wings. Antennae are filiform, which means thin and tread like. They can either be short or long.

  6. This is the wing anatomy of a Stick Insect:

  7. Stick Insects have tiny holes along there bodies called spiracles. They use these holes are used to breathe.

  8. How do stick insects behave? Behaviour of a Stick Insect is very unusual for insect species. Stick Insects make show rocking behaviour movements, and makes a rhythmic side to side move. When a predator is around they drop off the branch they are on and pretend to be dead. There are 3,000 species world wide and 101 species in Australia. Stick Insects mainly live in the tropics. The three New Zealand species are in UK for the last 100’s of years and nearly in the south west of England

  9. Where do stick insects live? This diagram represents the places in Australia that stick insects have been and could be found. Legend Land Water Sighting Searching For Green Blue Black Gray

  10. Stick Insects species These are some species of stick insects Anisomorpha paromalus (Neohiasea maerens) Haaniella species

  11. Sometimes the female is larger than the male, but the male’s antenna no matter what is longer than the females. • Stick Insects are the longest insect in the world, lots of the species are measured around half a metre with their legs folded out • Some of the Stick Insect species, also the 70 Australian ones have wings they are small and useless. • Did you know that Stick Insects are also called Walking Sticks? • Stick Insects moult. The new skin is very soft and hardens when air touches it. Some stick insect moult five or six times before they are adults. • Stick Insects have long bodies • Did you know that stick insects can lay over 1,000 eggs in one go. • Phasmatodea include the longest insects in the world! • If a young stick insect gets its leg stuck it can escape by breaking it. It will go around on five legs until a new one grows when it moults.

  12. Resources These are the sites and books we used to find the information. Web Sites http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/october/worlds-longest-insect-revealed.html http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2008/10/17/bug-cp-5696677.jpg http://australianmuseum.net.au/Leaf-and-Stick-Insects-Order-Phasmatodea http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/books/stick-insects/index.html http://www.friendsofthephasmid.org.au/site/1437587/page/889789 http://www.idlab.ento.vt.edu/IDLad/insect_orders/phasmida.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/stick_insect www.geocites.com/brisbane_hoppers/StickInsect.html http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects/Natural_History/natural_history.html http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects/phasmatodea.html http://www.brisbaneinsects.com/brisbane_hoppers/images/wpeB4.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/104/300296014_400f2e77eb.jpg http://www.freewebs.com/christiemay3/Ctenomophodes%20briareus%20female.jpg http://www.centralpets.com/php/search/storiesdisplay.php?Story=283 Books Bug Books- Stick Insect- Heinemann First Library by Karen Hartley, Chris Macro and Philip Taylor

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