lots of babies

Back on 24/09/2013 I blipped a single Stick Insect baby. Today my daughter and I found many, many more, all on her raspberry canes.

Clitarchus hookeri, is a stick insect of the family Phasmatidae, endemic to New Zealand. It is possibly New Zealand's most common stick insect.

It is often green in appearance, but can also be brown or red in colour.
This species tends to be fairly inactive during the day, with typical behaviours limited to crypsis; hiding amongst foliage using its effective camouflage, and adopting a swaying motion to imitate a swaying stem. It feeds nocturnally on New Zealand native foliage such as mānuka and pōhutukawa, but can also be found feeding on introduced plants, particularly Roses and genus Rubus (berries).