Native Stick Eggs Wanted

[CoolMantid]

Just as the title says :turned:

 

[ShieldMantid1997]

Is keeping NATIVES legal? or Is it as illegal as keeping exotics?

 

[CoolMantid]

Native=Legal

Exotic=illegal

I want native. Do you have any?

 

[frogparty]

I will later this year. Apparently my apartment complex gets loaded with them in the late spring/summer

 

[jcal]

You can find lots of them near San deigo. I believe those are Indian and still not native though.

 

[CoolMantid]

Why do you find them? Where they accidently released?

 

[jcal]

Why do you find them? Where they accidently released?

Yes

http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/locke.hp/walk_sticks.htm

Many other news reports if you google San diego Indian walking sticks.

Natives can be found so I shouldnt have dismissed frogs post so quickly. But these seem more "common".

 

[CoolMantid]

Wow. If any of you find some in San Diego. Please share them with me!

i need some! PM me!

 

[frogparty]

If what I find are non native I won't be shipping them, sorry.

 

[meaganelise9]

Wait. So people will ship exotic mantids all over the country (sometimes internationally) but not non-native phasmids?

 

[frogparty]

Non native Phasmida are proven to be extremely invasive and a threat to agriculture. Mantis are not the same, and according to several people I've spoken to at the San Diego zoo are really classified like tarantulas since they cannot be considered an agricultural pest.

So yeah, I won't ship anything proven to be a potential economic threat

 

[meaganelise9]

Ohh I see.

 

[CoolMantid]

Oh. I get it. The ones were accidently released by a 14 year old boy in San Diego. They are indian stick insects. There is only one native phasmid to CA. Its eats pine and is extremely rare to find. So those arent the ones you were finding.

 

[frogparty]

Yeah but you can come and get all the invasive ones you want

 

[happy1892]

Indian Walking Sticks cannot live in a cold climate right?

 

[frogparty]

That's my understanding.