There are nearly 3 000 species of walking sticks in the world all of which feed exclusively on vegetation. Walking Sticks are insects and belong to the Orthoptera order. This order includes grasshoppers, crickets, praying mantises, and cockroaches. Walking sticks are suborder phasmatodea, family phasmatidea .
Many walking sticks are parthenogenetic which means the population consists almost exclusively of females. The females can lay fertile eggs (without mating) which develop into more females. Their eggs are oval in