Transcript Stick Insects

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
It includes three
stages- eggs,
nymphs and
adults.
Adult
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
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.
This is the wing anatomy of a Stick Insect:
Stick Insects have tiny holes along there bodies
called spiracles. They use these holes are
used to breathe.
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
This diagram represents the
places in Australia that stick
insects have been and could be
found.
Legend
Green
Blue
Black
Gray
Land
Water
Sighting
Searching
For
These are some species of stick insects
Anisomorpha paromalus
Haaniella species
(Neohiasea maerens)
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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.
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