The Malay giant bamboo worm is a huge bamboo worm. The female can reach 14-17cm in length and 30-65g in weight. It is one of the heaviest insects known. The male is about 9-13cm long and brown, with a slender body and a fully developed hindwing. The female is bright green, with short wings covering the dorsum. This insect feeds mainly on plants such as oak, hawthorn, blackberry and ivy. Quiet during the day and nocturnal, with a unique defense mechanism, the female will clamp the predator with her spiny hind legs and scare off the enemy by spreading the rustling of her hindwings.

Bamboo worms are animals of the bamboo worm family. The shape is slender like bamboo nodes, medium to large, and the body color is mostly green or brown; The head is oval and slightly flattened, with short or slender antennae; Winged, leathery forewings, membranous hindwings; Slender or flattened feet; The body of the bamboo stick insect is elongated and rod-shaped, resembling bamboo sticks (such as bamboo stick insects) or broad-leaved leaves. The lifespan of adult insects is about 3-6 months. Bamboo worms are mostly distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. The main natural enemies are rodents, some species of crows and coiled tails in birds, as well as various ants, spiders, mantises, and color changing tree lizards. Mostly omnivorous.