Tropidoderus childrenii
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The children's stick insect (Tropidoderus childrenii) is a species of stick insect found in Australia.
Children's Stick insect
Tropidoderus childrenii
The children's stick insect (Tropidoderus childrenii) is a species of stick insect found in Australia. The Children's stick insect being about 110mm long can be quite gracious but when they reproduce they can reach plague proportions and can wipe out millions of eucalypt forests. During adult hood the children's stick insect mate more than once and this species is parthenogenic so its whole life as an adult, the female children's stick insect is laying eggs. From Winter to Autumn, (winter laid autumn hatched) the eggs will hatch forming an army of baby stick insects.
Breeding
The female children's stick insect lays plenty of eggs from 100 to 1000 eggs in the females adult hood. When the male finds a female he then mounts her by attaching his abdomen to hers and then uses his feelers to calm her down, then he ajaculates by sending in only one sperm at a time, 1x1.
keeping them
The leaf they eat: blood wood gum, greybox and more but the main leaf they eat is the red blood wood gum. keep in a large cage with ventalation and any holes in the cage are easy ecape routes for the little ones. Wounds on the nymph are minor because the will regrow limbs, antenna etc. Daily sprays help them moult, spraying gives them a nurrished exoskeleton and a nice drink.
life guide
- Hatchling:Small 1cm
- Nymph:Med 2 & half cm
- Immature:Med Lrge 9cm (moults in between)
- Adult:Large 12cm
- Imi adult:Large green 12cm
- Mid Adult:Large green yellow 12cm
- Sr Adult:Large yellow yings 12cm
External links
- friends of the phasmid(the long lost Phasmid)
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