arti dari phasmids generally mimic their surroundings in color, normally green or bronw, althoulgh a few species are brilliantly colored and others conspicously striped. many stick insects normally have spectacularly beautiful wings, while others resemble little more than a stump. A number of species have spineas and tuberdes on their bodies. found predominantly in the tropics and subtropic although several live in temperate regions stick insects thirive in forest and grasslands, where they feed on leaves. Mainly noctural creatures, they spend much oftheir day motionless, hidden under plants