insect

[v.hemmings]

I found a bright green stick insect in my garden yesterday Does anyone know what particular insect it is and where it might have come from? It was just climbing up the wall at the back of our house. Vera Hemmings.

[what..the?]

You don't live in cornwall do you...next door to me? lol

I think you will find it is of the Indian or Carausius Morosus variety.

I have just released about 100 into the wild. I had them as pets and I kept finding they breed too much and I could not collect enough ivy to feed them I thought they would be better out free in nature.

If your not my neighbour I think you will find that one of your neighbours has done the same thing as me.

You can buy stick insects kits as gifts you get a net habitat send off for some free eggs and then wait for them to hatch then they breed within a year, I had hundreds lol.

You can see the kits for sale here:

http://www.hawkin.com/find/keyword-is-stick+in sect/product-is-08929?SearchIsReferrer=true

[LoftyLottie]

Can they survive in our climate?

[what..the?]

I am not too sure but I put mine out when i was warmer, most people just bin the eggs and then I asume they hatch out on a landfill site somewhere, I thought a garden would be better.

[LoftyLottie]

Well at least they have a chance in a garden!

[what..the?]

I did woryy what the neighbours would think though esp as they are all avid gardeners, I can see some huge debate occuring and a residents meeting on what insect/animal is eating all their prize winning plants.

I quickly hide and don't answer the door ermmmmm......

[Cetti]

Did it look anything like this , Vera?

One of these Speckled Bush Crickets can look pretty scary if you come face to face peering through an upstairs window!

http://www.fotolibra.com/gallery/363206/speckl ed-bush-cricket/

[garner]

Stick Insects will not survive our winters if outside.They need a warm environment, you should be ashamed what the...What was wrong taking them to a petshop ect.g.

[v.hemmings]

No, I don't live in Cornwall. I am in Devon and they don't fly , do they? We left it in the garden so I guess it will not survive.Thanks for the info. V hemings

[terambulan]

Too cold outside for a stick insect. They eat privet leaves and privet could be bare in winter?

'tis adviseable to put it in a dry fish-tank with some privet leafy stalks to feed on.

[what..the?]

i tried to give them away to pet shops, schools and even the eden project for a display but no one wanted them. What else can you do they are only insects not ickle kittens.

[garner]

Ok what the.. You did your best, just seemed such ashamed for them to die that way.You would have thought schools would have been interested.

[what..the?]

I think the schools dont have the time to care for them, it's just too much bother in their eyes???