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phasmids
Well, uh, looks like a stick! ;-) The body is often further modified to resemble vegetation, with ridges resembling leaf veins, bark-like tubercles, and other forms of camouflage. Chewing mandibles are uniform across species. The legs are typically long and slender, and some species are capable of limb autotomy (appendage shedding). Phasmids have long, slender antennae, as long as or longer than the rest of the body in some species. This one had legs like dried grass.
Our Garden in Windwardside at the foot of the volcano Mount Scenery, Saba in the Caribbean Sea.
I noticed this stick insect on the dog blanket. Picked it up to put it in the greenery and noticed a missing stickleg!
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