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.

Science World staffers were in disbelief after a male stick insect was born into an all-female colony in what is being described as an “extremely rare” event. Science World’s stick insect colony has ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have created the best map of stick-insect evolution to date by combining DNA analysis and knowledge of their varied egg-laying techniques. The first stick insects flicked or dropped ...

YOU may have the eyes of a hawk if you can spot the insect hidden within the image in 10 seconds. At first, this picture may not look like anything special – it seems to be just a bunch of st… ...

Science World’s stick insect colony has at least 20 adult insects inside the large mesh enclosure in the Sara Stern gallery, the centre’s natural history wing, nestled among a beaver lodge ...