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Kentucky Color: A Walkingstick and a Walking Stick By Billy Joe Fudge The Common Walkingstick, sometimes referred to as the Northern Walkingstick is one of the most feared insects in our culture. Great Wooded South folklore has spawned horror stories about Walkingsticks spitting blood or poison or being capable of deadly stings. I must admit they are very intimidating looking because of their six inch body length and wide six-legged stance! The reality is that they are indeed harmless because of the fact that they only eat the green, chlorophyll ladened meaty areas of some tree leaves and yes, I know you are probably counting legs right now in preparation to question my math skills. This one only has five legs because it has lost the lower right leg. They have the ability to shed a leg or two to allow a hungry bird to get away with only a leg leaving them to carry on. They can however, regrow the lost legs during one of their four or five annual molts. Mmmm-hmmm, I'm still reading your mind for you are right now thinking, "Billy Joe has done gone to imagining things cause there ain't but three legs on that ol' Walkingstick!" What you might not know is that Walkingsticks will reach forward with their front pair of legs making themselves look about a third bigger than they really are. Also, I am not forgetting to explain that the second walking stick is probably the most famous walking stick in the Great Wooded South. It has been a stabilizing force in my life for about 20 years. If I'm in the woods, this split tobacco stick all dressed up with a leather hand grip and leather wrist loop is literally by my side every step I take. The handgrip cuts down on blisters and the wrist loop keeps me from losing the walking stick over a bluff or over a river bank. This story was posted on 2025-10-19 13:38:55
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