Pair of large, ca. 30cm mating walking stick insects on the trunk of a tropical tree with lichen and moss.

Large-bodied female from a pair of large, ca. 30cm mating walking stick insects from Ecuador on the trunk of a tropical tree with lichen and moss.

Skinny male from a pair of large, ca. 30cm mating walking stick insects from Ecuador on the trunk of a tropical tree with lichen and moss.

Stick-like jumping stick insect or stick grasshopper (family Proscopiidae) on leaf in the Ecuadorian forest. The insect has a bulbous head with huge eyes and conspicuously swollen anterior portions of its femurs.

“Sticks that are not sticks…some jump!” #Stick #insects #Phasmatidae include some of the largest insect species. This stock still mating pair from #WildSumacoLodge spanned ≥30cm. Nearby, an #Apiocelis jumping stick, #Proscopiidae played “stick” but soon jumped meter’s away & out-of-sight. #Ecuador