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Post by Wood~Ant on Feb 13, 2014 14:42:00 GMT
We have just had a nice surprise, as we ordered 5 nymphs of this stick insect species which were posted yesterday; and when they arrived in the post today there are actually 6 in the box. The place we bought them from is here Natural World. You can see from how fast they got here that is quite a good company to buy from. |
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Post by Wood~Ant on Feb 14, 2014 16:47:56 GMT
As we no longer have our original stick insects from 2010 which looked like bark covered twigs, we have decided to add to the 6 little baby Thai Beauties and have ordered Borneo Stick Insect Eggs, a pack of 10 Phenacephorus cornucervi; and 5 nymphs of the Sunny Stick Insect Sungaya inexpecta.
As all these will eat blackberry bramble leaves, which we have a lot of around here, hopefully they all do well.
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Post by Wood~Ant on Feb 14, 2014 17:22:38 GMT
The new nymphs of the Sunny Stick Insects should look like this when they grow up. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2014 19:31:40 GMT
Do these reproduce asexually like Carausius morosus?
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Post by Wood~Ant on Feb 16, 2014 8:22:55 GMT
Do these reproduce asexually like Carausius morosus? Females are parthenogenic. This means that they can produce fertile eggs with or without a male, but if a female is mated and lays fertile eggs the eggs hatch out quicker. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 13:59:27 GMT
Oh right very interesting! I've kept Carausius morosus before, but each laid a few too many eggs... Wouldn't mind keeping them again though!
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Post by Wood~Ant on Feb 17, 2014 14:02:15 GMT
Oh right very interesting! I've kept Carausius morosus before, but each laid a few too many eggs... Wouldn't mind keeping them again though! If we get ours to lay eggs later on I will let you know, as we may end up with a lot of surplus insects.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2014 14:22:43 GMT
Brilliant okay then  . |
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Post by Yanitch on Feb 19, 2014 8:16:00 GMT
I'm getting interested in these, how do you feed them in the winter when there are not many leaves around?
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Post by Wood~Ant on Feb 19, 2014 8:54:00 GMT
I'm getting interested in these, how do you feed them in the winter when there are not many leaves around? Most stick insect species eat bramble (blackberry leaves) which can be found all year round. A few eat privet or ivy, so finding the right source of food is fairly easy, even if you live in a town or city as long as there is some wild patches of ground. |
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