Salt's Phasmids

[salt]

I haven't been keeping phasmids (stick insects) for too long, so my collection is pretty small. I currently have:

Peruphasma schultei

Oreophoetes peruana

Sipyloidea sipylus

Carausius morosus

Ova:

Lopaphus sp Cuc Phuong

Peruphasma schultei

This is a beautiful jet-black species which possesses tiny red wings, however it is unable to fly. This species is restricted to a tiny region called Cordillera del Condor in Peru. This is a small species that reproduces sexually and grows to about 6/7cm (males are smaller than females).

Oreophoetes peruana

This is a beautiful fern-eating species that grows to around 7cm and originates from Peru. The females have the same colouration as the nymphs (pictured below) however males will become fully red except for antennae and legs.

Sipyloidea sipylus

This is a lovely all-female species originating from Madagascar and growing to a size of 11cm. When adult, they have lovely pink wings along with a very light pink/grey body colour. Received week-old ova less than two months ago, with the species taking a short time to hatch. one thing to keep in mind is that the ova of this species is very fragile, so if keeping them be careful. The stick insects lay the ova by sticking them onto the food plant, however a damp pile of cotton can be placed on the bottom of the enclosure so that most of the eggs are laid there (from what I have heard). Anyways, here are some pictures:

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Nice sticks, Salt.

[Wood~Ant]

Very nice. I only have the one species now, as we have no spare room for more tanks with all my ants, but mine lay loads of eggs so we end up with too many and ours eat bramble so cost nothing to feed except the odd curse when the spines prick our fingers.

[salt]

@myrm: Thank you Myrm!

@wood: I can imagine the amount of ETs and ants that you have taking up a lot of space!
It's a good thing that the bramble is free, otherwise I don't think anyone would be able to provide the bramble these beauties get through .
By the way, I must say that your ET females have very nice colouration, particularly the green female that Jen posted last year. How many of them have that colouration?

Here are some updated pictures: I'm about 2 weeks away from my first adult male and about 5-6 weeks from my first adult female
4th instar nymphs

Nymph drinking

[Wood~Ant]

salt It looks like all my ET males are dark brown and all the girls are various shades of green this year.

[salt]

Aug 26, 2015 19:58:37 GMT Wood~Ant said:

salt It looks like all my ET males are dark brown and all the girls are various shades of green this year.

Nice, they certainly look good from the pictures in your other threads!

Just a few updates, one of the P. schultei nymphs has perished, presumably due to too high humidity therefore I have decided to lower the amount of times I spray these guys. C.morosus, S.sipylus and O.peruana are all doing well and growing, which is great. The Lopaphus sp "Cuc Phuong" ova shouldn't be too long now until they hatch, 3-4 weeks at most. I have a few videos of some of these species that I hope to upload fairly soon.