A gift I just got...

[kitkat39]

Gotta love it when you receive a nice innocent light looking box and you open it up and see something like this! Just got it today! So excited as I've never come into contact with any insect of this size before! lol!

By kitkat39 at 2005-12-06

 

[lancaster1313]

Great gift!

 

[Seattle79]

WOW! Where did you get that?

-Kevin

 

[Rick]

Is it alive? <_<

 

[more_rayne]

Wow cool stick bug! Wish somebody would send me a box of scorpions.

 

[LauraMG]

Oh my GAWD!

 

[angelofdeathzz]

I like hand for scale... wait your not 3 ft tall are you?

 

[kitkat39]

@ likebugs - Heck Yes!

@Seattle - From a great friend! Make friends and one day you'll get something weird in box just like this!

@ Rick - Yeah it's alive.. bad shot, but the males are much more active than the female

@More_Rayne - Should have told me.. recently gave some away. ;-)

@ Laura - That's what she said

@angelofdeathzz - No I'm only 2 ft tall... when I'm laying down

 

[Jesskb]

Awesome pics! That thing is intimidating.

 

[kitkat39]

Awesome pics! That thing is intimidating.

Yeah seriously! I know there are other insects out there bigger than that, but i've never seen it in real life yet.. I was about to throw the box away from me when I first laid eyes on this thing after opening it.. lol!

 

[more_rayne]

So what are you feeding it?

 

[kitkat39]

So what are you feeding it?

Guava and rose

 

[GreenOasis]

Oh, you lucky bat's turd!

Congrats!

-Carey Kurtz-

 

[Morpheus uk]

Diapherodes gigantea (What you have there) love eucalyptus, they are an australian species and do best on it.

 

[GreenOasis]

So...that's not a Heteropteryx? (Jungle Nymph?) Sure looks like one! ...not that I am, by any means, an expert...just looks like what I've seen in pics before.

 

[Morpheus uk]

Nope, completely different species.

 

[PhilinYuma]

Diapherodes gigantea (What you have there) love eucalyptus, they are an australian species and do best on it.

+1

 

[invertebrates3]

Diapherodes gigantea (What you have there) love eucalyptus, they are an australian species and do best on it.

Thought Diapherodes gigantea was a New World species.Found in Grenada.

 

[jrh3]

The Jungle Nymphs get Larger than those.