How to Use stick insect in a Sentence

stick insect

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• Most of a stick insect’s life is spent in a circle of trees and bushes, even for those species with wings.
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 1 June 2018
• Found in eastern Asia, bulbuls are known predators of stick insects in Japan.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
• But a study of stick insects found that secreting liquid from foot pads has nothing to do with, well, sticking.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2019
• Southeast Asia is said to host the largest variety of stick insect species, and researchers are certain there are more to discover.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2014
• The ultimate goal is to reintroduce the stick insect to Lord Howe Island, but the rats must be eradicated first.
  — Ralph Steadman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
• The Lord Howe Island stick insect was believed to have become extinct sometime around 1920 due to the introduction of black rats.
  — Ralph Steadman, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
• In 2001, a scientific research team visited the rock and ascertained that the Lord Howe Island stick insect really was alive.
  — Ralph Steadman, Discover Magazine, 1 Mar. 2018
• Without native predators, the stick insect population could surge.
  — John Pickrell, Science | AAAS, 5 June 2019
• But after a ship accidentally introduced black rats to the island about a century ago, the stick insects disappeared, only to be found 40 years later on a nearby volcanic sea stack.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2017
• But scientists in Japan noticed that despite their camouflage, stick insects became bird food quite frequently.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• As Kaplan reports, plant seeds and stick insect eggs have some conspicuous similarities.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 30 May 2018
• But these critters didn't look like old stick insect museum specimens, leaving scientists wondering.
  — Giorgia Guglielmi, Science | AAAS, 6 Oct. 2017

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