Cool flower and bug! ID’s please

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I stepped over to this flower at break, and thought I saw the dried up remnants of a small praying mantis on the flower. I couldn’t see the spines on the arms like the usual ones you see in our area so I thought it had died there and parts had fallen off. But when I poked it moved!
Which species is this? The brown is not solid, it looks exactly like dead stick camouflage

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It is not large at all, very small
 
Looks like a stick bug. I see them around every now and then. There’s a bunch of different kinds depending on your location. If you google stick bug and your location I bet you could find it. I don’t think they are harmful.
 
That far north, it is probably the Chinese Mantis.

A little immature for being this late in the season, it had better eat and grow a lot before the cold comes.
 
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