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STICK INSECTS
Yup, it's a stick insect, sat on the wooden fence above the gravel in the garden at Constantine. This is a particularly large specimen, with an approximate body length of around 5 inches, is an Unarmoured Stick Insect. They were first known from Truro in Cornwall, particularly around the former site of Treseder's nursery (first reported 1979, but seen at the nursery since the 1920s), and are known from several sites around the Helford River including, Constantine, Falmouth, Feock and Mawnan Smith. There are a number of further sites throughout Cornwall, and this species is also found in SW Ireland, particularly around the Bay of Kenmare in County Kerry.
They feed, mostly at night, on roses, bramble, currant, potentilla, and leylandii hedging. Dahlia, hypericum, red valerian, and probably a wide range of other plants are also used.
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