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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Walkingsticks (Phasmida) » Common Walkingsticks (Heteronemiidae) » Diapheromera » Northern Walking Stick (Diapheromera femorata)
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Walking Stick - Diapheromera femorata
Copyright © 2008 "Tennesseebugman" Bill Tomson

Walking Stick - Diapheromera femorata
Watertown, Tennesseebugman County, Tennessee, USA
September 14, 2008
Size: 5 inches long, total
Would like to know if this is the poisnious? adn any more info on it like habitate you have.. is it male or female?
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Contributed by "Tennesseebugman" Bill Tomson on 18 September, 2008 - 9:53am
Last updated 23 August, 2009 - 1:19pm

Diapheromera femorata
Northern Walking stick. Read about it here http://bugguide.net/node/view/34736

They are not poisonous to my knowledge and I think this is a male. The males have bands on the femurs if I am not mistaken.
… Bob Moul, 18 September, 2008 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

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