To have been sucked in by this.......

[LucyEllensmummy]

www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects/Care/care.html

Someone has given some stick insects into DDs nursery - and because i just happened to say, oh i think they are quite sweet ive been roped in to look after the sodding things.

So i think i better do i a quick google!! THIS was the first site i came across and i went straight to the page linked, i was like OMG they BITE???? FFS, i have to tell the nursery

My brother had stick insects when we were kids. He never fed them. They escaped, had babies and were all over the house, on the walls, on the ceilings, for ages. Am not a fan.

Huuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

louder:

HUUUUUUMMMMMMMM MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

So what do stick insect actuall do apart from sitting around looking like sticks, ana biting you if you pick them up?

Am PMSL at the idea of them being "tetchy and uncooperative" if you wake them at funny hours. What does a cooperative stick insect look like?

i think thats about it lynette!!!!

You can train them too apparently, but should take care in traffic as they can be "naughty"

Ours laid eggs, some of which hatched. Only one of the hatched ones survived though, they mostly kind of got stuck hatching.

They didn't do much, although never bit us.

Mum and I were chucked out of our local park once though for pinching privet for it

You can put them in the DISHWASHER?????

Ours died after a few weeks - obviously should have washed them!!

Good of them to include recipe suggestions for the ones that don't make it, I think, especially in these straightened times.

Credit Crunch, geddit?

You're not HuuuuMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMing loud enough!
HHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

God I hate those things!! When I was about 8 or 9 my friend brought hers into school. The teacher was holding it next to me and the flaming thing jumped into my hair- very very long, very very curly hair. (feel sick thinking about it).

Took them aagggeeess to get it out..probably not helped my hysterical screaming.

[not an emoticon evven close to how I feel about them!!]

I had stick insects as a child and they are sweet, no they don't do much but they are really interesting to kids.

HEHEHE - Managed to fool the nursery staff - went straight up to the head teacher and asked if they had done a full risk assesment!! Showed her the printout, totally sucked in!!!!!

Made my day

DD's getting some soon. I'm looking forward to putting them in the dishwasher though dh will be annoyed that we will have to take the phone off the hook for their 'walkies'.

good site!

lmao