Stick insect

[ayed]

Hi, WRPs .

I had a trip to a desert area a week ago.I came across an amazing strange insect .It looks like as if it were a stick walking on a leave.No equivalnce so far found I on my dictionary .
My request is :
Could you please name this insect in :
Spanish , French , Italy , Hebrew , Arabic , British , American ...ect.

I attached its photo

Thanks in advance

Ayed's regards

 

[diegodbs]

In Spanish: insecto palo.
Palo means stick.

 

[poul]

In Danish - Vandrende pind

Vandrende ~ Walking
Pind ~ Stick

 

[ayed]

Thank you very much, Diegodbs and Poul.
So far I have two languages : Sapnish and Danish .
Still waiting

 

[Laia]

I've looked it up in the dictionary, and I think in Catalan it's called Insecte bastó, but I'm not sure enough...

(I'm a city girl, to me all are bugs... )

 

[Mutichou]

In French, the name of this insect is phasme.

 

[belén]

In English you call it "stick insect" I believe.

In "A bug's life", the Disney movie, one of the main characters is a stick insect. In one of my favorite scenes, he is hidden between real sticks and one of his friends is looking for him.

Xxx (I don't remember the name) Where are you where are you??

And he answers "I am here, I am here, I am the only stick with eyes!!!!"


Ps: OMG Ayed, thank you for opening this thread. I was goggling for "stick insect" and I found such a funny page: The British Stick Insect Foundation.

Everything is a joke there, but it is written as it is serious. I am cracking (no pun intended) up!!

 

[Whodunit]

I believe we use "Wandelnder Ast" in German. Google gives some hits, but actually a "Wandelndes Blatt" is more common.

wandelnd = walking
Ast = branch

 

[DDT]

In Italian that's "insetto stecco" (which sounds like the literal translation of the English "stick insect" )

DDT

 

[amikama]

I believe such insects belong to the Phasmatodea order. They are called מקלונאים in Hebrew (מקל = stick, מקלון = small stick).

 

[ayed]

All of you are much thanked .I am going to save-as it rght now.

 

[Josh_]

In Arabic:

حشرة عصوية

Hashara 'asawiyya

 

[Whodunit]

Here are the translation for some other languages.

 

[berty bee]

In hungarian we have two names for this insecte (latin name: Mantis religiosa)
1. ájtatos manó
2. imádkozó sáska

 

[Flaminius]

Japanese:
Nanafushi,
meaning seven gnarls.

 

[miu_miu]

In swedish they're called vandrande pinnar (very simular to danish)

 

[leesboek]

In Dutch:

wandelende tak (= walking twig)

 

[ukuca]

I guess that's a kind of cricket, so I might call that çekirge or cırcırböceği in Turkish.

 

[apmoy70]

In Greek:
Το φάσμα n., (to fasma)

 

[Outsider]

In Portuguese it's inse(c)to pau, as in English and Spanish. The letter "c" can be left out.

For those who aren't familiar with these funny little bugs, I found a web page about them.
P.S. Note that this is neither a cricket nor a praying mantis!

 

[kusurija]

In Czech:
Strašilka