AT HOME WITH KAYLA PRICE 10/28: Walking sticks
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Walking Sticks
Recently, I have seen walking sticks (Phasmatodea is their proper name) all around my house. These are the long, thin bugs that look like pieces of sticks with legs. I had never seen one until probably ten years ago. I remember showing it to my husband, and he told me they are called walking sticks. Since then, I have seen one or two every now and then. Last week I started seeing them everywhere around the house…except the inside, thankfully. When I came home one day, I stopped in amazement to see one that was probably 8 or 10 inches long walking along the fence. I tried to get a good photo, but she tended to blend in. The next day I saw one at the front of the house on top of a bush in the flower bed. He was only 3 or 4 inches long. When we had the freeze last week, I was about to cover a faucet in the corner of a flower bed, but there was a walking stick hanging off the soffit above. I decided that faucet was probably protected from the cold by the bushes. I was not about to have that bug fall on me! A walking stick which crawled over a security camera made the camera think it was a person. How funny to look and see that it was really just a bug! A few days later a walking stick was on the side light of the door; how cute. Until he decided to hang from the door frame overhead. I couldn’t go in or out the front door! This is when I needed to research if walking sticks bite (thankfully no, they are herbivores), but the one on the door had pinchers on its tail! I learned this signifies that it is a male. And tonight, as I walked around the house, I noticed yet another one on a window. This one seemed to have befriended a grasshopper, or else the grasshopper wondered if he could eat him! I have lived through multiple cricket invasions, a black beetle invasion, and now what seems to be the beginning of a walking stick invasion! Although they are a bit creepy looking, I think they might not be so bad! At least they don’t fly or dive bomb you.Read more: https://kaylaprice.com/
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Contributed by Kayla Price
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