Wednesday, September 6, 2023

Walking Sticks (Diapheromera femorata)

 

Mrs ERJ called my attention to a Walking Stick on the outside of one of our window screens.

Presumably, Walking Sticks are more common that realized because they spend most of their time up in the canopies of trees.

According to Wikipedia, they are generalists in that they can survive on many different species of trees it is believed that they prefer oak and hazelnut and wild black cherry.

6 comments:

  1. Yep, we don't see them down here. Nothing but mesquite and salt cedar in a lot of places.

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  2. Lived outside Austin where Oaks were the main tree. Hubby parked his car under a couple and that night walking to the barn we looked at the windshield of his car and there were 11 walking sticks. Entertained us for an hour watching them maneuvering around.

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  3. Our Walking Sticks lived for years in our junipers. Fascinated us for hours.

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  4. Apparently, they have a wide range. We had them in San Diego County and here in Tennessee. They're bigger here.

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  6. As an aside, there is a mature Black Cherry in the city park I pass through on the way into work. It had a lot of cherries this year, looked nicely ripened, then one day in the middle of the triple digit heat spell they were all gone. I suppose the birds might have descended on them en masse but my guess is the tree dropped them all dealing with the heat stress.

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