Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Unidentified stick insect, 0 by kattyg

kattyg wrote:
We've seen these little guys in the past - not often. This fellow is on the inside of our screened porch, and we took these photos this morning. It is a bit larger than one inch. Note the striped appearance of its legs. The front two legs are held straight out usually, and are toothed like a praying mantis' - I hope that is visible. He has a strange little head. He can fly - we were holding him the other day and he astonished us by just hovering slowly up into the air! I have searched everything I could find on stick-like insects, but he doesn't match any photos I can find. Thank you in advance for giving a name to our little friend!