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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salmonsaladsandwich" data-source="post: 306973" data-attributes="member: 8523">Do you mean from the walkingsticks I caught (which I have every intention of doing, two of them are already mating) or searching for eggs in the wild? Because you might have a better chance of finding a grain of sugar in a sandbox than finding walkingstick eggs on the ground. Worth noting that there is another species of stick insect in our area. Manomera blatchleyi. There isn't much info available on it, but from what I can gather it prefers low vegetation (living in overgrown fields and meadows rather than forests) and grows larger than Diapheromera femorata. It's also more attractive IMO, there's a few pictures of specimens people have kept in this forum section. I've only seen it once (didn't know the difference between the species at the time) but I hope to find it again and try keeping them. Since it always lives on low vegetation I imagine it's probably easier to find with the method I described once you've located its habitat.</blockquote>