{"id":353,"date":"2012-10-03T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T18:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/?p=353"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:24:04","slug":"walkingstick-insect-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/walkingstick-insect-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of the Two Walkingstick Insects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NewsFlash! This just in! The walkingstick with the green leg segments is a male Northern Walkingstick. The walkingstick with the all brown body is a female Northern Walkingstick. See my article <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/walkingsticks-riverdale-mississauga\/\">Female Northern Walkingstick in Riverwood Park, Mississauga<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p>These two photos are of two insects called walkingsticks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/walkingstick-insect-photos\/greenleggedwalkingstickonnaturalcrooksdotcom\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-357\" title=\"GreenLeggedWalkingStickProbablyNorthernWalkingstickOnNaturalCrooksDotCom\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GreenLeggedWalkingStickOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Green Legged Walking Stick Probably Northern Walkingstick\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GreenLeggedWalkingStickOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg 500w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GreenLeggedWalkingStickOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-200x142.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GreenLeggedWalkingStickOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x284.jpg 400w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/GreenLeggedWalkingStickOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-421x300.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One photo was taken near Sharbot Lake, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>The other was taken in Riverwood Park in Mississauga.<\/p>\n<p>I n theory, in Canada there is only one type of walkingstick, the Northern Walkingstick. Yet these two guys look pretty different. <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/walkingstick-insect-photos\/brownwalkingstickeyeingmeonnaturalcrooksdotcom\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-358\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-358\" title=\"BrownWalkingStickEyeingMeOnNaturalCrooksDotCom\" src=\"http:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BrownWalkingStickEyeingMeOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Brown Walking Stick Eyeing Me Probably a Northern Walkingstick\" width=\"500\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BrownWalkingStickEyeingMeOnNaturalCrooksDotCom.jpg 500w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BrownWalkingStickEyeingMeOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-200x110.jpg 200w, https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BrownWalkingStickEyeingMeOnNaturalCrooksDotCom-400x220.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One has only brown legs, one has some green legs. One has strong stripes on some of its legs, the other does not.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m checking into whether they are both Northern Walkingsticks or not. Stay tuned for a post with more details once I find out!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join In<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you have found a walkingstick, did it look like either of these ones? Please post a comment and share your observations with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are these two walkingstick insects the same kind? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[22,942],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focus","tag-insects-2","tag-northern-walkingstick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1371,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/1371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalcrooks.com\/rambles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}