I've named them all Tiki though I usually call them baby or buddy depending on their size/age. About 20 of them of different ages, t'was the season recently for pups :]
they are very cute ^ -^ (+ I go to parks and forests to get their food)
There are approximately 10 quintillion bugs (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) in the world. Squishing or taking them for a joy ride here and there is gonna do nothing. Ain't gonna go out of my way to protect one atleast, unless it's the spider in my living room, since he helps me keep the other bugs away.
a minimum of 99 % of stick bugs are female, males are smaller and thinner but so rare they've never been seen in many species of stick bugs. her abdomen is thin so she is either too young or too old to make eggs, the largest part on her butt is to drop eggs, they don't need males to make little ones, they do parthenogenesis, it's kind of like cloning themselves, the seed-like eggs fall on the soil & tiny new female stick bugs are born,
there is a very small chance it could be a male as there are so many species that look similar, as a stickbug caretaker I host 1 specie that looks very close to this one but with shorter antennae, but the extreme majority are female
Edit: my similar specie stick buddy
not the best angle but you can see her little horns and leg fins, she's a fertile adult so not thin and bendie like a recently shed young like I think the video speedster is, old'uns don't have such a strong & sticky grip like speedster, they couldn't have held on to that car, they do dance to gentle breeze at any age though
and interpret slight movement on their vivarium from walking on the common floorboards as breeze too so it's fun dancing together
I'm a stick bug caretaker, that is not best life at all, I hope the car stopped to bring it back to a bush of bramble. If you do come upon a stick bug far from bramble, take it back to there with a lot of patience so it comes on your hand voluntarily because they are delicate
She, male stick bugs are super rare, just one percent of population in many species, no males have ever been seen and are believed to not exist in plenty of species, they don't need males to have kids, they do parthenogenesis, kind of like cloning themselves, cute little eggs that look like seeds and they're born directly like tiny stick bugs, no weird stuff like other insects, they don't "take care" of their young, young are the adventurous ones that go look for other bush possibilities
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u/alee0224 2d ago
More like hanging on for dear life lol