Re: Stick Insects


"Janet Baraclough" <janet.and.john@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The message <fivke1t77b0cq7r4o4ljnrecvp8eb6o9m8@xxxxxxx>
> from Chris Hogg <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:
>
>> My S-i-L living in St. Austell (a mile or so from the Eden Project)
>> has had stick insects living wild in her garden for several years.
>> Apparently they are not uncommon in the area, having also been
>> reported to the Cornwall Wildlife Trust at Mevagissy, on the coast a
>> few miles to the south.
>
>> Is this unique to mid-Cornwall, or has anyone else got or know of
>> exotics like this?
>
> I'd no ideas they could survive outdoors in the UK. Are they the 6"
> ones?
> As a child I used to keep them as pets in a glass tank. They breed
> fast, dropping hard eggs (about the size of a peppercorn) randomly as
> they judder around. I used to save the eggs to sell at a petshop, a nice
> little earner.
>
> While I was staying with my longsuffering aunt in the long school
> holidays, my mother promised if I posted the eggs home to her she would
> deliver them to the petshop. So I collected them in an open jamjar which
> I parked on my aunts top kitchen shelf until there were enough to fill a
> large matchbox. How was I to know they would hatch in record time in the
> warm damp atmosphere of a busy kitchen? The babies are a lot livelier
> and faster than the adults; this is because they hatch on the forest
> floor and have to run fast up a tree to find their first meal. One day,
> my aunt came down to the kitchen to find there had been a mass hatching
> overnight; and a plague of stick-insects had dispersed all around the
> kitchen.
>
> It took me weeks to round up all the stragglers.....
>
> Janet
>

not all, I expect some got to Cornwall!

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