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former arborist here: actually, we've been seeing these guys and just not telling anyone.
Hi! Entomologist here again. Actually, it turns out that bugs cannot have jobs because they dont have social security numbers or souls. Common misconception! 
A “stick” like this can only stay unnoticed for so long in Australia.
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Guessing without reading:
Many sticks like it exist and scientists just looked hard enough to find a unique distinction between it and a species that looks exactly like it
I wish opening this thread just started a line of bug-related yo momma jokes
This “bugspiracy” is so insightful!
No one wondered why the sticks were moving?
I hope they discover a hippo bug that has been disguising itself as a hippo and remained un noticed.
sorry, got loose from my animal crossing island. headed to australia with my net.
, please summarize this thread. I’m struggling with following the dense entomological jargon.
As a child, I was in mortal dread, as I climbed trees, of putting my hand on a stick insect.
He was hiding out among all the other giant insects down there, I suppose.
it is a stick bug, it is supposed to not be noticed, not surprising it fooled people all this time
The confusion between entomology and etymology bugs me in ways I can’t put into words
Aussie here 
, because we have these type of creatures so it’s just another day for us.
, because we have these type of creatures so it’s just another day for us.
I think the correct answer is that whenever an Entomologist went out to find new species they’d get killed from giant leeches dropping from the sky and enormous spiders sprinting along the ground.
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!!! We found an Entomology-Man!
We have other giant stick insects here already. Also, when these things die and presumably fall out of a tree, they get eaten *really* quickly - the bodies don't sit around long. Very much bottom-of-a-very-busy-food-chain kinda fellows. Hence why they look like stick.
How often do you get to begin a post with "Entomologist here"?
I'd like to think you've been just waiting for the opportunity and it finally arose, but maybe it comes along more often than I'd expect.
People will be surprised about the new plant species, some of them large palms trees or conifers that keep being discovered. We are talking about things that can be seen at a distance.
Its also in Australian and idk about you but I ain't gonna go looking around there for new species, majority of them probably are the size of 1995 Nissan Stanza and suck my eyes out of the back of my skull
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Stick, stick, stick, stick,
Stick, stick, stick, stick,
Stick, stick, stick, stick,
STICKY, STICKY, STICK, STICK.
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Imagine thinking you found a weird stick that you're going to show to the stick community and it starts moving in your hands
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Whoa, that’s wild! Makes me think of ’s thread last week about undiscovered species in urban areas. Maybe these bugs are hiding in plain sight too? Can’t wait to hear the explanation!
Horticulturist here 
I actually tried propagating him like 6 different times, but he kept jumping away 
I actually tried propagating him like 6 different times, but he kept jumping away 
sorry, more questions, but if it was previously unknown, how did you find it was safe to pick up. Who picked it up first and did they have to sign some kind of waiver.
Stick scientist here: we love these little guys and wanted to keep them to ourselves.
Fuck this got me.
I’m not even sure why I was ready to read 30 paragraphs about this but second tweet of the 
made me laugh harder than it should
made me laugh harder than it should
New creatures are added to the Earth server every 432 days to confuse and amuse.
Are we certain it doesn’t have a pheromone that suppresses awareness of it?
we have multiple forests and wild places the size of Belgium where almost nobody goes
Australia can be summed up by going over there, picking up a stick sword, only for it to start moving in your hands
As a non entomologist I can tell you what would happen of I saw one. I would say "wow that's huge. I wonder what it is called" I would Google "stick insect". Would be weirded out by the results for probably 5mins. And settle on "stick insect" and I'm quite curious about nature.
Also, we underestimate how large the earth is.
Hell, if we lock in to just Australia, most of it is not inhabited by human.
It was found in the wet tropics of Queensland so lots of rainforest to hide in, also many news insect species are found each year here so really it's just a matter of being in the right place at the right time.
Well. Humans have some bugs in their searching protocols.
I appreciate how you kept this simple and didn’t include fancy scientific words to confuse people!!
Bc we see these things and just think 'oh look another big stick bug', to go with all the other big spiders and insects.....
And besides...it just looks like a stick. Carry on.
Australians are only interested in sticks which return after throwing them away
What's always funny about this is that the indigenous people have always known of its existence. Definitely have a name for it. But the yt "saviors" must name something for it to "exist".
the actual answer is these species are often discovered by indigenous populations, but that’s not counted by the scientific community
Wilson wrote that anyone could walk into the Amazon rain forest and be certain of discovering a new insect species within hours.
Like I said, 'Science' only just discovered it.
There are millions of different species out there.
The locals would have known about it for a long time.
There may even be ancient or older records of something that big if there were ever anyone inclined to make records.
I thought that maybe it isn't as "new" as the article present it to be, maybe cryptic or subspecies raised to the species level (so the entomologists did knew about it, but the taxonomy slightly changed and, oh wow, we have a new species)
THAT thing was undiscovered?????
I remember seeing more than one of them in my life. I remember seeing pics of that Asian? one and reading the length and wondering why it was said to be bigger.
Oh I’ve seen one of these guys in the wild - amazing as hell (also one heck of a jump scare). Truely their incredible
We had these kind of bugs in class when I was in elementary school. It was like looking at an empty terrarium. Just some wood and leaves. OH THE STICK MOVED ! Oh it stopped.
Idk if this is dumb or not, maybe it’s just geographical or something but we just call these walking sticks. Are people really just now finding out about them?! Genuine question. I’ve held so many of these in the wild 
This is why I don't believe them when they say "100 species go extinct every year"
Hello emtomologist, i am just a bug lover and sometimes when i observe some of the regulars mear me they exhibit behavior or characteristics that the knowledge on the internet doesn't seem to know about and i think i must tell someone about this! Who could i tell?
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"They" still haven't discovered that I'm a giant new species of human insect. I'm the second heaviest insect in my country (:
I just had this insect like two months ago on the gate, 3rd time seeing it. Looks like a praying mantis actually just wayy bigger.
Seriously! Next they'll ask why it took so long to discover the invisible spiders living under our beds. They are invisible!
For someone asking "why they didn't discovered all this time?"
Well, we always think its too big to be true
Did everyone just assume someone else must have already officially "discovered" and named it?
Actually it's because of the pheromenes they secrete interfering with the minds of observers.
Everyone in Australia is busy being distracted by the rest of the wildlife, so this guy just been chilling.
Given how people are handling it on videos, it appears to not be deadly poisonous so Australians who saw them were like "meh who cares, mate"
These things are all over the place. It's easy to miss a different one amongst all the others. Besides, we have a lot more of these....
