Children S Stick Insect Eggs

Generally speaking you need to keep the eggs a little bit more moist than the parents need to be kept.

Children s stick insect eggs. Found a pair of children s stick insect nymphs early summer 2007 when we were searching for leaf beetle larvae on gum leaves in karawatha forest we found two children s stick insect nymphs on the top a small about 2 meters tall stringy bark gum tree. Both females and males grow up to 11 cm adult females are usually pale green and are too heavy to fly adult males are slender and light brown and do fly they feed on eucalypts gum leaves and require an enclosure of minimum size 35 cm tall x 30cm x 35cm and room temperature of 16 to 28. Eggs are vulnerable to adverse circumstances like drought extreme temperatures and fungi. Taking care of the eggs is the hardest part of breeding stick insects.

When a male does manage to mate with a female there s only a 50 50 chance that the offspring of that union will be male. You can keep the temperature the same as the temperature of the parents with a. Unmated females produce eggs that when mature become female stick insects. The children s stick insect tropidoderus childrenii is a stick insect from south eastern australia.

The females are usually a beautiful apple green colour but can also be cream or very light pink or purple. The children s stick insect or yellow winged spectre is found throughout the eastern coast of queensland new south wales and victoria their bodies grow up to around 14cm in length and both the males and females have two pairs of wings. Ants carry the eggs back to their underground nests eat only the knob and leave the rest of the egg in the nest protected from other animals that might eat it.