Some members of the walking stick family have wings, and these are even
more curious than those that have none.

Their wings and legs are flattened to look like leaves, so that it is
very difficult to find them among the foliage.

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Yes, May, they are also the color of the leaves they live among.

Here is a picture of one that will give some idea of these strange
little people.

We have none of these leaf-like insects in our country, but we do have a
near relative to the walking sticks, though it does not feed on leaves,
I assure you.

How many of you are acquainted with his lordship, the praying mantis?

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Charlie says he has seen these fellows in Kansas, and Nellie says she
has a cousin in the South who has told her about them.

Here is a picture of one; is it not a beauty!

Its wings are green and its body is brown, so that it can stealthily
creep about among the foliage without being noticed.

When at rest it holds its front legs up as though it were raising its