If I've not screwed up, this pic should show one of the stick insects from my garden. I believe it is Acanthoxyla geisovii from New Zealand which arrived in my garden, out of the blue, a few years ago and has been with us ever since. Sometimes we have had about a dozen individuals but this year we have only seen two.
But we did have to cut the myrtle hard back last year and we have had a cold winter.
Pleb