Stick Insect

[carolegif]

I've got two stick insects in my porch. One has died, but the other one moves around. He can get out and was on the front window earlier this week. I don't know whether to. I've him/her onto a bush in the garden. Any ideas please?

[Tilly2]

Proper stick insects? The ones from a pet shop?

[carolegif]

Yes! They are. Big!

[Mamyalynne]

Have you discovered them or bought them?

Some have become naturalised in parts of the UK.

https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/stick-insects

[Tilly2]

Apparently, there are Stick insects living in the UK. I never knew.
This is interesting. They have a facility for reporting the sightings at the end of the article.
How interesting for you, Carlogif. :-)
https://www.buglife.org.uk/bugs-and-habitats/stick-insects

[Tilly2]

Snap!

[Mamyalynne]

Yes!

[carolegif]

I have reported it. We get them every year, they are usually on the wall near the garage. I think this one is sheltering from the cold!

[carolegif]

How do I put a piccie on?

[Tuvok]

Upload photo to tinypic.com then post the link tinypic gives you here.

[Tilly2]

Well done for reporting it, Carolgif. Thanks for BA. :-)

Do you know how to use Tinypics?

[pastafreak]

We get them in the States...but they look a bit different.

http://trekohio.com/2012/10/23/the-walkingstick-insect/

I used to love watching them, and praying mantises, as a child.

[tamborine]

Do you have privet bush/hedge, their fav food. Keep them in fish tank, collect eggs & sell to pet shops or ebay.

[carolegif]

I prefer to see animals in the wild rather than in cages etc. I have had a lovely reply from the website and will put it on a nearby bush.

[hereIam]

I hope it survives, but it may be lonely on its own.