stick insects!

[triplets]

One of my boys wants some for Christmas, are they easy to keep and where do I get them?

One of ours escaped when we were cleaning them out once. We couldn't find her then we had to go on holiday. We got back a week later and she was alive and well and livning wild in dd's bedroom clinging to the canopy on the bed. We gave her some water and she drank loads immediately. She was very thirsty.

I never thought this would arouse so much interest! Ok, you have all talked me into them, and maybe before Christmas!

'They lay lots of eggs which you might want to crush if you don't want them to multiply too much'

Does that mean you have to be pro choice if you want to keep them?

Yes, you do, but first of all you have to be able to tell the diff between eggs and poo

they poo?? how did mine stay alive for 3 years lmao i didnt even know they needed water please dont ring the stick insect police on me!!

Excuse me if I sound mean, but if they multiply in excess, can't you just put the spawn outside (like in a privet hedge)? Or are they not equipped to survive outside in the UK? Will they cause an imbalance in the ecosystem, maybe?

I started off with 2 in a jam jar and ended up with hundreds in a big fish tank. I used to sell them at school..lol
They were abit of a nightmare in the end tbh.

mummimamma thats a good point! you never see them just hanging around like flies spiders etc, but someone did say they have to stay above 18 degrees was it? they probably wouldnt survive the winter

We used to have them when I was a child. 'Sticky and twiggy' who had lots of babies, kept in an old fishtank with tights over the top. We had a privet hedge, but when we moved house a few years later we were moving somewhere without a hedge so they were all released into the hedge, I was a bit sad when a few years later I realised thay wouldn't have survived. They were always escaping and we'd find tiny babies on the curtains! They do eat bramble etc too though! Ours weren't at all scary, just skinny green things that would climb and sway from side to side! They came free from the school stick insects, you will be able to give them to everyone you know too. Ours never had a heat met, I think most houses are normally over 16 anyway, it'd be pretty cold to be below that. have fun with them!

thats it sway from side to side lmao bounce i was thinking of parrotts hehe