Pink Wing Walkingstick
Common Name: Pink Wing Walkingstick Scientific Name: Sipyloidea sipylus
Order: Phasmida
Range: Southeast Asia and Madagascar.
Diet: This species can be reared on blackberry, rose, or oak, although its diet differs in the wild.
Reader Rail Information: The female pink wing stick insect reproduces mostly by parthenogenesis, without mating, and her eggs will hatch into females also. Males are very rare in the wild (and there are none in captivity), but when they do mate with females, the eggs will be males and females. Pink wings fly well and give off a defensive chemical similar to that of lady beetles; this probably tastes bad to birds and mammals. The eggs look like caraway seeds and the females stick them to twigs and leaves.
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