Walking Stick (animal #6)

KINGDOM: Animalia
PHYLUM: Anthropoda
CLASS: Insecta
ORDER: Phasmatodea
FAMILY: Heteronemiidae
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Diapheromera femorata
COMMON NAME: Common stick insect, northern stick insect
NOTES OF INTEREST: Females scatter shiny black and gray striped eggs in leaf litter. Larvae feed on understory plants.