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Stick insects belong, together with walking leaves, to the phasmatodea. For many years, people have been busy describing the stick insect species. This is mainly done by the people of the Phasmid Study Group, also known as PSG. They place these species after careful research in the psg-list. Stick and leaf insects are remarkable animals because most of them are very well camouflaged : like psg 1,

Carausius morosus. Others are brightly colored and very active. Phasmids are nocturnal herbivores, meaning they only eat plants and they do that at night. The most popular foodplants are : bramble, ivy and privet. Before you put your animals in a terarium, butterfly cage or faunabox you should first check if you can keep them. The cage must be minimum 3 times higher than the length of the mature animal, and 2 times wider. Otherwise, the insects won't be able to molt. And that's necessary, because stick and leaf insects do this to grow. The males of stick and leaf insects are faster mature and smaller than the females. Room temperature is warm enough for most phasmids even though most of them are found in tropical areas around the equator and even in southern Europe.

05/06/2026

🍃 Magical wind makes stick walk!

🌿 This little stick insect was enjoying a sunny evening, well hidden in the foliage, when a strong wind shook its shrub!

🌑 Normally stick insects are active at night and try to stay as still as possible during the day, but when a breeze shakes the trees they start moving as well. It's the ideal moment to eat a bit, because the swaying branches around them hide their movement.

👉 Would you dare to hold this insect?

🆔: adult female stick insect of the species Hermagoras foliopeda, in care of breeder

03/06/2026

🌱 Eco-friendly gardening!

01/06/2026

👋 Bye baby!

🌿 Leaf insect moms don't want anything to do with their eggs. But to be fair, they don't want anything to do with anyone - hence the perfect leaf-look.

🍃 It actually makes sense that the leaf insect moms fling their eggs as far away as possible. In that way, they don't give away their hiding spot to predators (which would be the case if they just dropped the egg, an insect eater could look up and see a tasty meal). And when the eggs are more spread out over a large area, the babies won't compete with each and their parents for food. A bit like trees making sure their seeds are spread far and wide so there's less competition for light.

✈️ You could say leaf insect babies have a flying start!

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31/05/2026

💋 A bisou for ?

🌿 It would be amazing if you would nominate me for the or the Belgian influencer awards! Let's bring phasmids to Brussels!

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27/05/2026

🌿 Leaf eats leaf, c🟢nnibalism?

☘️ Leaf insects have evolved to look, feel and move exactly like plant leaves. However, they're herbivores, which means they also eat leaves. You see where I'm going with this? Yes, sometimes leaf insects are confused and nibble on their neighbours 😅. Can you beleaf that?

👉 Send this to someone who needs this munching leafy as a doomscrolling palate cleanser.

📸: leaf insect eating a bramble leaf, sped up 15x, filmed by

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