The camouflage stick insect

Stick insects are interesting creatures best known for their exceptional camouflage. They eat the leaves of fairly common plants such as privet and bramble. It is thought that all the individuals found are females but these can lay fertile eggs without the need for a male, a process known as parthenogenesis. Adult females live for only a few months, they die off each winter but by that stage will have laid eggs from which the next generation of stick insects will hatch in the following spring. Like other insects, stick insects grow by shedding their skin.

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