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In human culture

Stick insects are often kept in captivity: almost 300 species have been reared in laboratories or as pets. The most commonly kept is the Indian (or laboratory) stick insect, Carausius morosus, which eats vegetables such as lettuce. Droppings of the stick insect Eurycnema versirubra (Serville, 1838) fed with specific plants are made into a medicinal tea by Malaysian Chinese to treat ailments.

The botanical illustrator Marianne North (1830–1890) painted leaf and stick insects that she saw on her travels in the 1870s.

Tribesmen in Sarawak eat phasmids and their eggs.

Some indigenous people of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands have traditionally made fishhooks from the legs of certain phasmids.

Research has been conducted to analyze the stick insect method of walking and apply this to the engineering of six-legged walking robots. Instead of one centralized control system, it seems each leg of a phasmid operates independently.

In Australia and Hawaii many kinds of stick insects are kept as exotic pets including the strong, goliath, spiny and children's. The custom of keeping stick insects as pets was probably brought to Australia by either Chinese, Japanese or Vietnamese immigrants during World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War.

Stick insects have been kept as pets since the time of the Han dynasty. They were kept inside birdcages and people in the Far East believe they bring good luck and fortune, just like crickets.

The video game Disco Elysium includes a storyline centered around a giant stick insect and cryptid called the insulindian phasmid.