Product Description
This Stick insect figure includes hand painted features to give it realistic details that are true to natural anatomy. This figure is considered a museum quality replica. Highest Quality Natural Rubber. 4 Inches.
Stick insects are distributed widely across temperate, tropical, and subtropical regions of every continent except Antarctica. They reside almost exclusively in grasslands, woodlands, and forests. The greatest number of stick insect species is found in South America and Southeast Asia, but a disproportionate number of species appear to occupy the large island of Borneo in the Pacific. Borneo is home to all manner of rare and diverse animal species, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. To avoid predation, stick insects are largely nocturnal in nature. They spend most of their days lying motionless on or under plants and only come out at night to feed. Many species appear to be well-adapted to or at least somewhat selective of their host plant (which also tends to serve as a source of food). The scientific name for the order of stick insects is Phasmatodea, which derives from the Greek world phasma, meaning an apparition, phantom, or ghost. This is reflected in the animal’s strangely ethereal disappearing act. Because Phasmatodea represents an entire order (a major level of taxonomy below the class Insecta), the stick insect encompasses a truly massive number of species. It is estimated that there are more than 3,000 species of stick insects around the world! Given how little is known about stick insect evolution, their taxonomical system is still in flux. Scientists are working out how to classify all of the stick insect species into different families of organisms.
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