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Childrens Stick Insect

by Brumby Ben
(Sydney, NSW, Australia)

Children Stick Insect

At the Sydney museum, the people gave us three more stick Insects: 2 Goliaths and 1 Children's. The Children's stick Insect is laying eggs. She is 12 centimetres long from the head to the end of the cerci. If she has not mated she will lay eggs still, but they will only hatch into females and they will lay eggs and they will hatch into females, it goes on and on. The females can't fly but the males can. So one bush soon could get very populated since they can't fly away. She is laying about four eggs per day. She looks more like a leaf than a stick.

Her scientific name is Tropidoderus childrenii Gray.

About that Titan Stick Insect- she died. We brought it to the Australian Museum "Search and Discover". They didn't know what kind of stick Insect it was. So we left it there so they could find out. I might have found a stick insect never found before. I would call it the Vanderkolki stick insect. Also they said it was impossible to have eaten the other stick insect (only praying Mantis do that.)

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Apr 06, 2008
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stick insect-cannibles.................Nah!
by: ben

The titan ate the Exuvia (moulted skin) duhh!

Sorry about your titan.

Apr 06, 2008
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Titan and childrens stick insect, mantids
by: Ben

Hi!
I'm ben
I was reading about your titan stick insect and how you took it to the museum and they did not know what species it was, any way, did it have black to a tingy brown with white specled wings, or a 25cm long body, If not it may be, but the musum would know if it was a titan stick insect because after a few days of death the female will discolor and will be mistaken for a new species.

The childrens stick insect is quite impressive even though it might be on its way to death, Ill tell ya why, because when the wings turn a yellow color that means that she will possibly die. :(

Me myself have bred childrens, spurr legged, and spiny leaf stick insect (spiny leaf insect).
and learned lots about stick insects and mantids and I even found a new species of Praying Mantis in bundabergs turtle sands and she is a whopper, I called her a stick mantis ghost because of the way she flings her arms up when disturbed. She is the sub species of the large brown mantis from brisbane and is 2x bigger and is pale gray
to blend in with the spinifex on the beach line!