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

Konrad Wothe / Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) fishing for ants with stick, Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, East Africa

Jan Hamrsky / Needle Bug / Water Stick Insect (Ranatra linearis) portrait. Europe, August.

Jouan & Rius / Stick insect (Diesbachia tamyris) female with wings open, rainforest, Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia

Albert Lleal / Celebes Leaf Insect (Phyllium celebicum), native to southeast Asia

Pete Oxford / Stick insect (Phasma chrysoptera) displaying, Eastern rainforest, MADAGASCAR endemic

Piotr Naskrecki / African Savannah Mantid (Polyspilota aeruginosa) clinging to stick at sunset, Guinea, West Africa

Pete Oxford / Australian Walking Stick (Extatosoma tiaratum) harmless, Australia

Kim Taylor / Stick insect {Phasmid sp.}

Rolf Nussbaumer / Ash throated flycatcher {Myiarchus cinerascens} with stick insect prey, Texas, USA

Pete Oxford / Stick insect (Phasmidae) Yasuni NP, Amazon rainforest, Ecuador

Gerry Ellis / Stick Insect on leaf, Papua New Guinea