stick insects

with the mantids and stick insects, it will take more work to establish their exact position within the evolutionary tree of insect life.

虽然我们怀疑螳与螳螂、竹节虫有共同祖先，不过还得要做许多研究，才能确定螳在昆虫演化系谱上的确切位置。

all of the magazines have tiny stick insects on their covers.

所有的杂志都有公众人物来做封面。

young models who look like stick insects (= are very thin)

瘦得跟竹节虫似的年轻模特

in some classifications considered a suborder of orthoptera : stick insects; leaf insects.

在某些分类中被认为是直翅目的一个亚目；竹节虫；叶虫。

If you lever up the stone with a stick, you will find lots of insects living beneath it.

要是用棍把这块石头撬起来, 你就会看到那下面有许多虫子.

They do this for two reasons-the first is to feed, although they usually stick to insects and earthworms.

它们这样做有两个原因：其一是取食，尽管它们通常吃昆虫和蚯蚓；