Phobaeticus chani

Chan's megastick Strategy: masquerade as a twig. Stick insects spend the day motionless, relying on looking like part of the plant to keep predators from noticing them, and this one does it at record scale. A specimen from the rainforest of Sabah, on the Malaysian side of Borneo, measures 56.7 cm including its legs, and the Natural History Museum in London named it the world's longest insect in 2008. It is believed to live high in the rainforest canopy, and only three specimens had been recorded when it was named, all from Sabah. Seeing a wild one is a long shot, so any stick insect on a night walk in Borneo is a fine consolation: look for the twig that has six legs.