Children S Stick Insect Eggs

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.

Children s stick insect eggs.

The eggs of the spiny leaf insect extatosoma tiaratum have a knob called a capitulum which is attractive to ants. Taking care of the eggs is the hardest part of breeding stick insects. The females are usually a beautiful apple green colour but can also be cream or very light pink or purple. Unmated females produce eggs that when mature become female stick insects.

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. You can keep the temperature the same as the temperature of the parents with a. The children s stick insect tropidoderus childrenii is a stick insect from south eastern australia. One had the board body and legs were flatten plates with saw toothed edge.

Generally speaking you need to keep the eggs a little bit more moist than the parents need to be kept. Eggs are vulnerable to adverse circumstances like drought extreme temperatures and fungi. 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.