What do you feed spiny leaf insects?

You can feed them on oak, bramble, sweet chesnut, rhododendron, eucalyptus, apple, raspberry or rose leaves. The Spiny Leaf Insect will eat mainly eucalyptus, oak or bramble. Cut the leaves with a small section of the branch from the tree and place in water (like flowers).

What do giant prickly stick insects eat?

Food and feeding Extatosoma tiaratum eat the leaves of blackberry, raspberry, oak, rose, hazel and eucalyptus. In the winter you can still find fresh blackberry leaves outside.

How long do New Guinea stick insects live?

Origin: New Guinea, New Caledonia and Solomon Islands. New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect are large, strong and very robust insects living up to 2 years.

What do Australian spiny stick insects eat?

Stick insects feed upon leaves, and while some species are very fussy about the species of plants they feed on, many feed happily upon gum and wattle tree foliage. Some will eat the foliage of other backyard plants such as roses, Lilly-Pilly and Guava.

What can I do with spiny leaf insect eggs?

Maintaining your stick insects The insect droppings (also known as frass) and eggs can be scooped up and placed in a container. The eggs will need to be removed before you throw out the frass, sand or newspaper.

How long do Eurycantha Calcarata live?

2 years
Giant Spiny Stick Insect Eurycantha calcarata

How to care for a giant spiny stick insect?

Giant Spiny Stick Insect (Eurycantha calcarata) Care Sheet 1 Wild Habitat of Eurycantha calcarata. Eurycantha calcarata was described by Lucas in 1869. 2 Giant Spiny Stick Insect Cages. 3 Heating & Temperatures. 4 Water & Humidity. 5 Cage Decor. 6 Feeding Giant Spiny Stick Insects. 7 Breeding Eurycantha calcarata.

How tall does a New Guinea spiny stick insect get?

Keep this moist, but do not allow mold to develop. Like all species of stick insects, the terrarium of the New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect should be at least 3 times the length of the insect in height, and at least 2x the length of the insect width. For an adult female this means at least 45 cm in height and 30 cm in width.

What kind of food does a spiny leaf stick insect eat?

Diet Spiny leaf stick insects are herbivores. Their preferred browse item is eucalyptus. They also feed upon guava, tree Lucerne, wattle, oak, rose, raspberry, hawthorn, salmon berry and bramble.

What kind of plants do New Guinea sticks eat?

Feeding the New Guinea Sticks is very easy, we have listed all the foods plants this species has been known to eat; bramble ( blackberry ), hawthorn, apple, pear, cherry, oak, beech, ivy, may, alder, hazel, elm, rowan, knotweed, sorrel, vine, and species of Cotoneaster, Rhododendron, Croton and Tradescantia.