Big Bend National Park: The Christmas-Colored Walking Stick

Walking stick, Chisos Mountains Lodge, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017.

There's something compelling about walking sticks and katydids. The one that looks like a, yes, walking stick, and the other that looks like a walking, apple-green leaf.

I didn't see any katydids, but I saw a couple of walking sticks. One, in particular, sticked out (heheheh) because it wore Christmas green and red.

Walking stick, Chisos Mountains Lodge, Big Bend National Park, Texas. September 2017.

Also, it tried its damnedest to scale a stone wall of the Chisos Mountain Lodge, but just couldn't get its little feet to stick, so kept tumbling off.

In Walking Stick Trails, Part 1, it's interesting to see how the walking stick uses one of its rear legs to feel out a good gripping spot. To no avail, alas.

In Walking Stick Travails, Part 2, said insect, perhaps in a fit of pique at its unwanted audience, launches an assault upon my chair leg, perhaps to register a complaint.

An episode of Focus on Species: Stick Insects, starts off a little slowly, but gets pretty darned interesting as it goes on.