Not an entomologist. Certainly not a genius! Hobbyist insofar as FReeper SunkenCiv (and many others) keep us posted on all sorts of new developments in history, archeology, natural history, etc. I’m certain anything I learned about the Lord Howe/Ball’s Pyramid stick insect I first learned on FreeRepublic! 🙂
:^) Thanks BLS! Somewhere in 1st or 2nd grade, a classmate asked our teacher what kind of diet a walking stick needed. That was the first time I’d ever heard of such a critter. I didn’t see my first one (and know it, anyway) until my late teens, when some rental property my folks owned was getting repaired (tenants started it on fire) and there were a bunch of walking sticks wandering around on the outside walls, for some reason.