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stick insects

n. (stick insect English)

Usage examples of "stick insects".

There were more cages here, but smaller ones, sheltering live specimenspupating butterflies and moths, stick insects, leaf insects, dung beetles.

She signed the register, watered the sad plants on the windowsill, went and fetched some fresh privet from the hedge for the stick insects that were the successor to Henry the Hamster (chosen on the basis that it was quite hard to tell when they were dead), tidied a few errant crayons away and looked around the classroom at all those little chairs.

Wending their way toward where he was seated, their multiple short, jointed legs striding along in unison, they looked for all the world like a monkish procession of deeply religious stick insects.