Hello,
I live in the Northern Kentucky area, about 15 miles outside of Cincinnati, OH. Am interested in keeping phasmids ... mainly for our 4-6 yr olds to experience them but also they are fascinating from everything I have read.
We have had a couple of adult "Northern Walking Sticks" that I have found in the yard and in the parking lot at work but they didn't live for more than a couple of days - not sure what happened there. Also found some nymphs in a park that we had for about a month, they went through one molt but then we lost 'em. I think it was due to the rose plants that we tried to feed them that were possibly treated with some kind of pesticide.
We have had a few Mantids "visit" with us for a few days at a time but we often just turn them lose. The kids love feeding them crickets and other little bugs. We also have a few tree frogs rescued as tadpoles from the pool and a few tanks of Cichlids. No other insects yet
If there's anyone in the Greater Cinci area or Kentucky that knows of some good spots for collecting phasmids, please do share. Or I guess if someone's got ova for sale I would definitely be interested.
Not sure if anyone else in the US had this issue but I tried registering on the insectstore phasmid site but for some reason got rejected... but again there aren't too many Americans - wonder if that had something to do with it.
Great forum hope to meet more phasmid collectors!
Kevin
I live in the Northern Kentucky area, about 15 miles outside of Cincinnati, OH. Am interested in keeping phasmids ... mainly for our 4-6 yr olds to experience them but also they are fascinating from everything I have read.
We have had a couple of adult "Northern Walking Sticks" that I have found in the yard and in the parking lot at work but they didn't live for more than a couple of days - not sure what happened there. Also found some nymphs in a park that we had for about a month, they went through one molt but then we lost 'em. I think it was due to the rose plants that we tried to feed them that were possibly treated with some kind of pesticide.
We have had a few Mantids "visit" with us for a few days at a time but we often just turn them lose. The kids love feeding them crickets and other little bugs. We also have a few tree frogs rescued as tadpoles from the pool and a few tanks of Cichlids. No other insects yet
If there's anyone in the Greater Cinci area or Kentucky that knows of some good spots for collecting phasmids, please do share. Or I guess if someone's got ova for sale I would definitely be interested.
Not sure if anyone else in the US had this issue but I tried registering on the insectstore phasmid site but for some reason got rejected... but again there aren't too many Americans - wonder if that had something to do with it.
Great forum hope to meet more phasmid collectors!
Kevin
