Stick Bug on my Mirror

[ohland]

Never know what you will see.
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[Ed Barrett]

First sign of fall around here.

[captain-03]

Yea -- those things are pretty neat -- nature is amazing!!

[quack1]

Used to see them all the time when I was a kid. Haven't seen one in probably 10 years or more.

[runfiverun]

was he carrying a jacket?
he'd need one here already.

[MaryB]

Rare in MN, haven't seen one since the early 80's

[waynem34]

Hey almost looks like a bug.I caught a preying mantis in the house he was huge.Glad to see fall.

[skeeter2]

We saw on at our cabin in MN. Was pretty cool.

[ShooterAZ]

There's a reason you rarely see them...they look like a stick and like to hang out in the sticks.

[Charley]

All bug are insects, not all insects are bugs. If it isn't hemiptera, it ain't a bug!

[Bad Water Bill]

Bet it was a female.

They DEVOUR their mates.

The males only and last thought was ---.

Let that be a warning to you youngsters.:bigsmyl2:

[Goatwhiskers]

Don't eat it, they are toxic. GW

[KYCaster]

Now that takes camouflage to a whole nother level.......it thinks it's hidden because it's sitting on something that looks exactly like it.

At a USPSA match last Sunday and a little Hognose Snake came across the range. Ten grown men on our squad wouldn't even get close to it. Two of them wanted to shoot it, but the Range Master nixed that idea even though he was afraid of it himself......said it might be a timber rattler. Frances Francis (the only lady present) and I played with it till it did all its defense tricks.

It wasn't even a foot long.......buncha wusses!

Jerry

[Screwbolts]

Yup, a genuine "Walking Stick" always nice to see them.

[Multigunner]

There are huge stick bugs in some Tennessee counties. I've seen one about a foot and a half long and thick as a thumb. That was not far from Oak Ridge nuclear laboratory so it might have been a mutation.
Near there I saw a flying insect resembling a mosquito that was so big it was slamming itself against a chain link fence trying to get through it. I first thought it was a RC airplane model.

[ohland]

Near there I saw a flying insect resembling a mosquito that was so big it was slamming itself against a chain link fence trying to get through it. I first thought it was a RC airplane model.

Crane fly?

[TXGunNut]

Only seeing a few around here, probably just missing them. Any bug that eats bugs is all right by me.

[Bullshop Junior]

I had one one my truck mirror a few weeks ago about a foot long. Guy I was working with was scared of it, so me and the other guys teased him with it all day.

I had a praying mantis on the door frame the other day when I got home from work. As I was watching it some little Beatle ram up and she ate. So I let her stay.

[Multigunner]

Crane fly?
More likely a type of Dragon fly, some have been reported to have a 7.5" wing spread which is not quite as big as this one was. I had seen normal sized Dragon flies around there before seeing this outsized specimen. It was too far away to make a positive ID.

It may have been an invasive species that didn't thrive here.

[Garyshome]

Is that thing still stuck on your mirror?

[winelover]

Quite common in these parts. This one came to visit, this afternoon, while I was casting in garage.


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No shortage of bugs, in Arkansas, most on steroids. This is a "fishing" spider.

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Here a different looking butterfly, complete with camo.


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Winelover

[Multigunner]

I think thats a Moth rather than a butter fly.
I've seen a Moth that when its wings were folded it looked like a small robin.
Moths have more radical wing patterns than butter flies.

[winelover]

I think thats a Moth rather than a butter fly.
I've seen a Moth that when its wings were folded it looked like a small robin.
Moths have more radical wing patterns than butter flies.


Actually, I believe it's a Sulpher (Yellow Angled), according to Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies. There are very few green colored butterflies listed. This species does, however, have a green phase. "Jade green to yellow". They are also pretty rare. Range is Mexico and Caribbean: wandering north to Dallas, Omaha, and South Florida; perhaps resident in South Texas.


Winelover

[mold maker]

I once saw a huge mantis (7") and the next day the holly bush was full of tiny ones. In another day or so they were all gone.

[Bullshop Junior]

They must like mirrors.

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