Chien Lee / Minden / Stick Insect (Monticomorpha flavolimbata) pair mating in mountains, Bengoh Range, Ecuador

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) - orange color form, pair mating, Florida, USA, August.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) orange color form, pair mating, Florida, USA, July.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) orange color form, pair mating, Texas, USA, July.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) orange color form, pair mating, Texas, USA, July.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) orange color form, pair mating, Texas, USA, July.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) female, orange color form, Texas, USA, October.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) female, orange color form, Texas, USA, October.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) female, orange color form, Texas, USA, October.

John Abbott / Southern two-striped walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) male, orange color form, Texas, USA, October.

Konrad Wothe / Stick insect (Prisopus sp.) female with wings spread, Panguana Reserve, Huanuca province, Amazon basin, Peru.

Konrad Wothe / Stick Insect (Pseudophasma sp), Panguana Nature Reserve, Peru

Pete Oxford / Walking stick insect (Pseudophasma sp) Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, South America.

John Abbott / Southern Two Striped Walkingstick (Anisomorpha buprestoides) orange colour form, pair in copula, on white background, Archbold Field Station, Lake Placid, Highlands County, Florida, USA, August.

MYN / Andrew Snyder / Spiny stick insect (Creoxylus spinosus) Iwokrama, Guyana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

MYN / Andrew Snyder / Spiny stick insect (Creoxylus spinosus) Iwokrama, Guyana. Meetyourneighbours.net project

Piotr Naskrecki / Stick Insect (Hesperophasma lobatum), La Selva Biological Research Station, Heredia, Costa Rica

Chien Lee / Stick Insect (Dinophasma sp) from the lowland rainforests of Sarawak, Gunung Mulu National Park, Malaysia

Chien Lee / Stick Insect (Dinophasma saginata) female, Borneo, Malaysia

Piotr Naskrecki / Biting Midge (Forcipomyia sp) flightless, attached to the antenna of a Walking Stick (Metriophasma sp), Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Walking Stick (Metriophasma sp) with Biting Midge (Forcipomyia sp) attached to its antenna, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Costa Rican Walking Stick (Metriophasma diocles) showing dark false eye spot on its hind wings during a startle display, Costa Rica

Pete Oxford / Stick Insect (Pseudophasma sp), Yasuni National Park, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador

Edwin Giesbers / Golden eyed stick insect (Peruphasma schultei) portrait. Captive, occurs in Peru.

Edwin Giesbers / Golden eyed stick insect (Peruphasma schultei) portrait. Captive, occurs in Peru.

Gil Wizen / Stick insect (Metriophasma diocles) spreading its wings showing defensive behaviour, Guayacán Rainforest Reserve, Limon Province, Costa Rica.

Chris Mattison / Peruvian stick insect (Peruphasma schultei), on white background.