laurie
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What kind of mantis is this and is it safe for chams?https://scontent-b-sea.xx.fbcdn.net...=2ab6448ee4625e98a9bdb4ff048b2ed6&oe=52891985
is this safe?
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MSAquatics
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I've only seen one of those in the wild ever. Apparently they're more common in chameleon habitats. I don't know what they eat, but can't imagine they have all that much nutritional value based on their body size.
Leland
Leland
It is a stick bug, and native to the US. No stick bugs native to the US are harmful to reptiles as feeders.
The Stickies that can spray chemicals are in more tropical climates.
The Stickies that are thorny and could cause damage are also more tropical climates.
Good eating my friend!
Nick
The Stickies that can spray chemicals are in more tropical climates.
The Stickies that are thorny and could cause damage are also more tropical climates.
Good eating my friend!
Nick
laurie
Retired Moderator
It is a stick bug, and native to the US. No stick bugs native to the US are harmful to reptiles as feeders.
The Stickies that can spray chemicals are in more tropical climates.
The Stickies that are thorny and could cause damage are also more tropical climates.
Good eating my friend!
Nick
Thanks Nick. My friend in Ohio found it in her yaed and assumed I would know what it was.
She will be glad to know they are ok.
pssh
Avid Member
It is a stick bug, and native to the US. No stick bugs native to the US are harmful to reptiles as feeders.
The Stickies that can spray chemicals are in more tropical climates.
The Stickies that are thorny and could cause damage are also more tropical climates.
Good eating my friend!
Nick
There is one in the FL that can do something along spraying chemicals (or maybe it just releases them?) I believe it is black and pink? Maybe not, I can't remember which one it is exactly, but I know there is one! Another member reported not feeling comfortable feeding them off because of this though, and another tried, but the chameleons would spit them out immediately.
Laurie, I posted in another thread about what I thought it was, but I'll post it here too. I think it's a diapheromera femorata male.
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20p?see=I_NAT2316&res=640
CarlC
Established Member
It is safe to use. I took a couple of guys from here collecting them a few weeks back. This time of year they are really easy to find on bramble and small scrub oak.
Anisomorpha buprestoides is from Florida and you want to stay away from it. It has the ability to spray and defensive fluid that can cause temporary blindness in humans.
Carl
Anisomorpha buprestoides is from Florida and you want to stay away from it. It has the ability to spray and defensive fluid that can cause temporary blindness in humans.
Carl
little leaf
Avid Member
Thanks Nick. My friend in Ohio found it in her yaed and assumed I would know what it was.
well......... ya know everything else
he was from last year - I just wanted to know so if I find anymore - it was the hook butt thing
I was not so sure about 
kdc5019
New Member
If I'm not mistaken its a male. Scientific name Diapheromera femorata. Aka walking stick. CarlC, myself and NHenn recently went on a hunt for these guys and found about 8 pairs. 2 weeks later I had over 200 eggs! So yes they are great as feeders and real easy to breed! Just make sure you have raspberry bramble or rose bushes they can eat it your planning on keeping them and not just as feeders!
little leaf
Avid Member
laurie
Retired Moderator
Thanks Kara, that looks just like the picture Cheryl sent me.
Andee
Chameleon Enthusiast
How long have you been feeding them romaine? Most stick insects can't survive very long on lettuce and need either oak, blackberry, rose, or eucalyptus (I am sure there are others too) to survive. (I don't suggest feeding eucalyptus as it is poisonous and I think it would make them so too) And also the food needs to be kept fresh if you are to go the route I suggest so it needs to be kept in a container with water, but stick insects cannot swim so what I do is take a plastic container, bore holes in it with a drill and make it just big enough to stick the branches in but nothing else can get in.
Plus there is the fact that romaine is not the best gutload, oak is probably my favorite gut load for feedable stick insects as I feed it to my roaches too, it seems just about everything eats it and I have a lot of it around me and my supple never loses leaves.
Plus there is the fact that romaine is not the best gutload, oak is probably my favorite gut load for feedable stick insects as I feed it to my roaches too, it seems just about everything eats it and I have a lot of it around me and my supple never loses leaves.
pssh
Avid Member
Sure thing! I love stick bugs I wish I could find some of those kind around here, but I have never seen one in my life!
I had some that did okay with lettuces (not just Romaine though.) One colony only ate lettuce. A later colony would get brambles as well as lettuce but they seemed to do a little better. I also had a colony that I fed ficus and pothos to and they did okay.
I wish I could find some of those kind around here, but I have never seen one in my life! I had some that did okay with lettuces (not just Romaine though.) One colony only ate lettuce. A later colony would get brambles as well as lettuce but they seemed to do a little better. I also had a colony that I fed ficus and pothos to and they did okay.
DGray
Avid Member
sticks
They have been introduced to San Francisco; they like English ivy and blackberries on the hillsides above upper Market St. Don't say I told you...
Sure thing! I love stick bugs
I had some that did okay with lettuces (not just Romaine though.) One colony only ate lettuce. A later colony would get brambles as well as lettuce but they seemed to do a little better. I also had a colony that I fed ficus and pothos to and they did okay.
They have been introduced to San Francisco; they like English ivy and blackberries on the hillsides above upper Market St. Don't say I told you...
