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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teamonger" data-source="post: 310942" data-attributes="member: 9511">So I am looking to pick up a stick insect this week. I have done my reading and know the goto foods are oak leaves, rose leaves, berry bush leaves, and bramble leaves. However it is winter here in Iceland and some of those would be hard to find even in the summer here. I see that the pet store is feeding the sticks lettuce. Fears of pesticides aside is lettuce of any type a viable food source? Is there anything I can buy at the grocery store that would do the trick? Lettuce (romaine or otherwise), spinach, cabbage, live herbs of some kind? I also have some bean plants from my failed aphid experiments I could give them if that was an option as they are fast to grow and I can be sure nothing bad has been sprayed on them. In the long run I plan to plant some raspberry bushes but that is going to take a while.</blockquote>