What types of (native) stick insects do you keep?

[unicycle281]

Just wanted to get some breeding notes and perhaps pictures of various species of North American stick insects kept. Anyone keep any cool ones? I currently keep diapheromera femorata and just got ova of anisomorpha buprestoides, with a couple recent hatchlings. Anyone have any of the less common species?

 

[Peter Clausen]

I've got a video from 2 or so summers ago. Megaphasma dentricrus:

 

[unicycle281]

Wonderful video!! Do you still have a culture of these? They are one that I would some day love to get!

 

[Peter Clausen]

Nope, my culture failed miserably, sorry. The females failed to thrive on the oak I had them on, though the adult males seemed fine with it. The few ova they produced failed to hatch the following year. Strange that you only have 8 posts. Your name looks very familiar.

 

[unicycle281]

That's too bad on the culture! I think next summer I might go out and search for them. From what I've read they live in southern Indiana as well, so that wouldn't be too terrible of a drive. We'll see how that goes this summer!

 

[Bug Crazy]

I have plentiful numbers of Parabacillus coloradus and Diapheromera covillea. I collect the P. coloradus in my front yard. They are usually a nice salmon color, but sometimes gray or tan colored. The D. covillea, which feed (seemingly exclusively) on creosote, I collect south of town. The females and males look very different from one another. The females are large and gray, and the males are slender and a coppery brown color.

I would post photos, but I seem to be having a hard time doing it.

That's too bad on the culture! I think next summer I might go out and search for them. From what I've read they live in southern Indiana as well, so that wouldn't be too terrible of a drive. We'll see how that goes this summer!

 

[Hypoponera]

Have you caught any new ones yet? I found a nice gray-ish female Parabacillus. Probably P. hesperus as I have not found P. coloradus in my yard. Oddly, this is the first I have found in spring. I normally find them on the side of my house in early Sept. Have you tried to feed them rose by chance?

I have plentiful numbers of Parabacillus coloradus and Diapheromera covillea. I collect the P. coloradus in my front yard. They are usually a nice salmon color, but sometimes gray or tan colored. The D. covillea, which feed (seemingly exclusively) on creosote, I collect south of town. The females and males look very different from one another. The females are large and gray, and the males are slender and a coppery brown color.

I would post photos, but I seem to be having a hard time doing it.