Dawkins starts the lecture coming in with a stick insect on his hand. Several species of stick insect and their elaborate camouflage are shown. Its mascot is Zeppo, a stick insect. There are no or very few branching in stick insect wing veins. The range has one endemic species of stick insect, "Timema nevadense". Phobaeticus chani or Chan's megastick is a species of stick insect in the tribe Pharnaciini. Eurycnema goliath, the goliath stick insect, is one of the largest stick insects in Australia. One Australian species, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, is now listed as critically endangered. Swaying is seen also in some insects, like Macleay's spectre stick insect, "Extatosoma tiaratum". The stick insect "Megacrania batesii" lives and feeds only on this species. When no males are present in the population, this stick insect exhibits parthenogenesis instead. The stick insect life cycle is hemimetabolous, proceeding through a series of nymphal stages. In "The Psychiatrist", she calls him "an ageing, brilliantined stick insect".