Originally Posted by rob158

This is a warning to anyone who keeps or may be wanting to keep stick insects,
Stick insects are members of the class Arthropoda and the order
Phasmatodea, they are herbivores, spending their lives on foliage, moving slowly, depending mostly on camouflage to save them in a world of hungry predators, there are over 3.000 known species of stick insect and species such as the American Walking Stick (Anisomorpha bupestroides) and to a lesser extent Pink Winged (Sipyloidea sipylus) have a defensive chemical spray which in the case of American Walking Stick (Anisomorpha bupestroides) can cause temporary blindness and considerable pain to an adult,(this happend to me), if you are going to get stick insects or have some and wish to get more i suggest researching the species first before getting them.