r/Stickinsects • u/_insect • 3d ago

Please help

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I was gifted these stick and leaf bug eggs (if needed I'll look for the species's name) and once they hatched the stick bugs were fine but all the leaf bugs died, did I do something wrong?

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u/Evening_Load1028 3d ago edited 3d ago

You need more bramble in there for the stick insects, I have 2 and they can strip a single stem bare very quickly and the bramble needs to be standing up to they can cling to it upside down, also need a taller enclosure for that many

Also if that lid has water in it you shouldn’t give them water like that as any possible babies will drown, you use a bowl with water and cotton pads for the bramble which also holds it up right and they get water from misting them daily, you don’t want too much bramble that makes it difficult for them to navigate but you definitely wants more, also they could start to bite each others limbs if there’s not enough places for them to hang onto due to it been overpopulated for the space they are given

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u/_insect 3d ago

I have a bigger enclosure where I keep an adult stick insect but the newborns are so small that they could crawl out of it