The pink-winged stick insects, a species of phasmid originally from Madagascar, have been found in Hawaii since the 1990s on the islands of Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island, according to the zoo.

Eight pink-winged stick insects, more formally known as Sipyloidea Sipylus, are now living at the zoo’s Ectotherm Complex. They’re rather harmless, according to the zoo.

A surprise clutch of eggs has solved a century-old leaf insect mystery. A female Phyllium asekiense, a leaf insect from Papua New Guinea. Like many leaf insects, P. asekiense was known only from ...

There’s something new at the Honolulu Zoo: pink-winged stick insects. Eight of them were donated from the University of Hawaii’s Department of Plant and Environmental Protection Sciences ...

These herbivores look like leaves, twigs, and bark—giving new meaning to the phrase “You are what you eat.” Phasmids, commonly known as stick or leaf insects, often fade into the flora to ...

ABOVE: New World stick insects, from left to right: Pseudosermyle phalangiphora, Metriophasma diocles, and Peruphasma schultei CHRISTOPH SEILER T he scientific order Phasmatodea, or stick and leaf ...

With their extraordinary ability to mimic twigs and leaves, stick insects are among nature's most renowned masters of disguise. Stick insect advice: Make like a tree and leaf - Los Angeles Times ...