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.
Taking care of the eggs is the hardest part of breeding stick insects.
Eggs are vulnerable to adverse circumstances like drought extreme temperatures and fungi.
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.
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.
The eggs of the spiny leaf insect extatosoma tiaratum have a knob called a capitulum which is attractive to ants.
You can keep the temperature the same as the temperature of the parents with a.
A captive female stick insect can produce hundreds of all female offspring without ever mating.
One had the board body and legs were flatten plates with saw toothed edge.
The children s stick insect tropidoderus childrenii is a stick insect from south eastern australia.
Generally speaking you need to keep the eggs a little bit more moist than the parents need to be kept.