Stick Insect Page

Stick & Leaf Insects

All the stick insects listed feed on bramble unless otherwise stated
Sizes shown are average length from head to tip of abdomen, including ovipositor, but not antennae.

For additional information/photos please do a Google search on the scientific name. Do not limit the search to UK only as most of the best information is in Europe and America.

A Complete Guide To Breeding Stick & Leaf Insects Paul Brock
Beautifully produced hard back book with excellent colour photos and lots of new information. Photographs and detailed description of stick insect eggs. (63 pages, 2000)
Half Price Only £7.00 (Usual price £14.00)

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Mixed Stick Insects
( various species, various colours - all feeding on bramble)

Small / Medium Nymphs £3.00 per 3 / £5.00 per 6 / £10.00 per 15

Adults / Sub-Adults £6.00 per 3 / £10.00 per 6

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Bud Winged Stick Insect (Phaenopharos khaoyaiensis)
An all female (parthenogenic) species. Adults are long and quite slender (approx. 12-14cm), pale buff brown with tiny bright red wings that are used purely to startle.
Medium £2.50 each

Giant Green Stick Insect (Pharnacia biceps)
A very long stick insect from Java, seems to have become an all female species in captivity, adults approx. 20cm long. Easy to keep, feeding on bramble.
Small/Medium £4.00 each

Giant Thorny Stick Insect (Trachyaretaon brueckneri)
The females of this species are huge, up to 13cm long, the males are slightly smaller. Both sexes are wingless, brown and spiky.
Feeding on Bramble.
Medium/Large £4.50

Indian Stick Insect (Carausius morosus)
Very easy to keep, often called the Common stick insect Olive green to dark brown in colour with red patches on the first pair of legs, flashed as a warning when disturbed. Will feed on Privet, Ivy and various other plants as well as bramble. All female species 8cm.
Small £1.00 each / Large £2.50 each

Peruvian Fern Stick Insect (Oreophoetes peruana)
Brightly coloured species, feeding on Ferns, seems to have become an all female species recently.
Large £5.00 each

Pink Winged Stick insect (Sipyloidea sipylus)
Straw coloured, all female species 9cm, with delicate pink veined wings.
Small £1.50 each / Large £3.00

Thailand Stick Insect (Baculum species)
Long and stick like, males smaller than females, non winged species. Feeding on bramble.
Large £3.00 each

Thorny Stick Insect (Aretaon asperrimus)
A very popular, interesting, easy to keep species. Female 7cm, male 5cm, very spiky and brown in colour.
Large £3.50 each

Trinidad Miniature Stick Insect (Libethra regularis)
Various shades of brown, approx. 4cm long. Female bulkier than male, neither sex has wings.
Small £1.50 each / Large £2.50 each

Stick insects are generally sent as a male and female pair, or single male. If you require a single female please telephone to check availability (unless I have a surplus of females a male will be sent). It is not possible to sex nymphs from all species.

Rearing And Studying Stick And Leaf Insects Paul Brock
Produced by the Amateur Entomologists' Society to replace the Phasmid Rearers Handbook. A very informative book. (73 pages)
£6.25

List of scientific stick insect names in alphabetical order, followed by the common name (this is not a list of available stick insects, all stick insects in stock are shown at the top of the page)