Children S Stick Insect Care

There are over 2 500 species of stick and leaf insects.

Children s stick insect care.

Support the channel on patreon so we can rescue more animals in need. Spiny leaf stick insect care and setup guide. However indian stick insects are the most commonly kept as pets. Stick insects can represent an ideal first pet for children on account of their ease of care.

Camouflage is one of the primary protection techniques used by children s stick insects as they often have the appearance of leaves. Stick insects do not have a larval stage so they will emerge as full bodied insects. Stick insects are short lived meaning that you won t be left cleaning and feeding them for decades to come if your children get bored. Children s stick insects are easy to keep and both males and females are easy to handle just don t be surprised if the males like to fly off your hand.

Feeding diet stick insect eat any types of eucalypt gum leaves and acadia wattle species. Stick insects eat leaves but they do not eat all types of plants. Every species has one or more plants which they eat while they will refuse to eat other leaves. They don t require daily maintenance and can be left alone for a week without any care.

Using a special muscle to break it off at a weak joint the imperiled insect simply sheds the leg in a defensive strategy is known as autotomy. Children s stick insects range from green red brown cream pink and purple in colour depending on the gender and the age of the insect and wings are typically a faint yellow to green. 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. Make sure you provide plenty of leaves as soon as the eggs hatch.

The eggs are elongated tan capsule like and young are bright green to whitish green. Therefore you have to be sure to feed the correct species of plant to your stick insects because they will starve when fed the wrong kind. Your stick insect can drown so it is best to have a lid on the container and have small holes for the branches to be put through. This species feeds and blend in well on eucalypt leaves.

Small braches with fresh clean leaves should be placed in your enclosure in a container of water. The children s stick insect tropidoderus childrenii is a stick insect from south eastern australia. Once the stick insects hatch you can return them to the main cage. Stick insects can regenerate limbs.

Stick insects require the utmost care when handling but they can be very tame and sit on your hand.