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Diapheromera femorata, the Northern Walking Stick

October 13, 2009 by myrmecos

Male (left) and female Diapheromera femorata

Male (left) and female Diapheromera femorata

Myrmecos blog commentators identified Sunday’s mystery photo almost instantly as a stick insect laying an egg.  The species is the Northern Walking Stick Diapheromera femorata, a common local insect easily collected by beating tree branches. We’ve taken a few home as pets, and the females are obligingly dropping several eggs a day.

The eggs of D. femorata resemble plant seeds

The eggs of D. femorata resemble plant seeds

Photo details (top): Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens on a Canon EOS 50D, ISO 200, f/5.6, 1/200 sec
(bottom): Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS 50D
ISO 100, f/13, 1/250 sec, flash diffused through tracing paper

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Posted in Nature | Tagged Insects, phasmatodea, Photography, stick insects | 5 Comments

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  1. on October 13, 2009 at 1:54 pm pedrodapos

    uau! fantastic pictures!
    these eggs are really amazing!


  2. on October 14, 2009 at 6:24 pm gmramon

    What is its myrmecolgical importance? Are the eggs carried to the nest by harvester ants?


    • on October 15, 2009 at 10:38 am myrmecos

      The eggs have an operculum that attracts ants, so the ants disperse the eggs. This is analogous to the elaiosome of ant-dispersed plant seeds.


  3. on October 15, 2009 at 8:38 am jason

    Great shots! I love these guys. I’m sorry to say the last one I saw was being dismembered by a rather upset Polistes annularis.


  4. on October 17, 2009 at 11:51 am Final collecting for the year « IB 401

    […] as psocopterans, chrysomelids and last week we collected five stick insects using this method, see here and here for photos of our catch. The wooden supports on the under side of this white fabric make […]



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