I was be-bopping out of my apartment one day and saw a walking stick insect trying to climb up the outside of my front door.  I zipped upstairs, grabbed my camera and came back down to find him now on the ground.  I clicked this picture of him scurrying across the stoop before he jumped into the grass. 

As one of my kids used to say, "Dad, he's heading southbound" (which he was!).

But not two seconds later, he was hidden in the grass...

(If you can't find him, his tail is sticking out nearly horizontal about one-half of the way up in the center of the picture).

For all those kids who need a quick term paper, download the pics above and check out this page on the US Forest Service's site.  (Don't forget to give me credit for the pics in your bibliography!)