The day after Mr Moo joined me in Massachusetts last month, we drove into town to return my rental car. One of the ladies at the rental place walked around the car to look for damage while I did paperwork inside. After passing around the back of the car, she hurried inside with a strange look on her face. She said there was something on the rear windshield and she wasn't sure if it was alive or not. It turned out to be a stowaway walking stick bug.

My aunt and uncle's house is in a heavily wooded area. He must have fallen out of a tree onto my rental car and somehow managed to hang on all the way into town. Since there wasn't a tree anywhere near the car rental place, we decided to bring him back to the woods. We carefully placed him into the trunk of Mr Moo's rental car and drove back to my aunt's house. Of course, there was no way I was going to just let him go without taking some pictures first. He started out acting quite aggressively towards me...


...but quickly went on the defensive and into camouflage mode once I touched him a few times.

I'm just a stick! You can't see me!