Green Giant

Subject: Green Giant 5/15/2009, 7:34 pm

My female Heteropteryx dilatata has shed green now and is almost as big as my hand
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Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/15/2009, 7:37 pm

Very cool ! Very Happy

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/15/2009, 8:13 pm

Wth is that?

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/15/2009, 8:14 pm

Its a Jungle Nympth stick insect

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/15/2009, 8:20 pm

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/16/2009, 8:37 am

Ugly, ugly faces but awesome creatures.

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/16/2009, 12:16 pm

Awesome!!

I almost had a chance to get one, but when the USDA thought I was keeping phasmids, I thought better of it.

Just don't get "scissored" by those hind legs of hers. I've seen videos of them in defense-mode.

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/16/2009, 4:27 pm

Mr. Mordax wrote:: Just don't get "scissored" by those hind legs of hers. I've seen videos of them in defense-mode.

I know all about that! She's got me with them using a whipping motion and they have barb-like thorns on thier legs. Its like being beaten with a rose bush! lol

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/20/2009, 8:20 pm

Her head looks sooo cool.

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/20/2009, 8:22 pm

Mr. Mordax wrote:: Awesome!! I almost had a chance to get one, but when the USDA thought I was keeping phasmids, I thought better of it.

Are you not allowed to keep them?

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/20/2009, 9:27 pm

Mr. Mordax wrote:: Awesome!! I alm

WTF!!!
THat's the creepiest smiley ever!!!

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/21/2009, 12:08 am

diabollicallycursed wrote:

Mr. Mordax wrote:: Awesome!! I almost had a chance to get one, but when the USDA thought I was keeping phasmids, I thought better of it.

Are you not allowed to keep them?

Nah we can't keep any non-native walking stick here. I had a chance to get some too but it was early in the hobby for me and I wanted to drop the money on an Androctonus I saw there.

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/21/2009, 1:17 am

As Andrew said, the US won't let you keep walking sticks that aren't native to your state without lots of permits -- and then, only if you're an organization, not an individual.

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/21/2009, 5:33 am

Shocking!! Shocked

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/25/2009, 8:56 pm

Mr. Mordax wrote:: As Andrew said, the US won't let you keep walking sticks that aren't native to your state without lots of permits -- and then, only if you're an organization, not an individual.

Thats gash likes! over here your allowed pretty much every phasmid out there (probably cause they wouldnt survive over here.) What i dont get tho is how your allowed desert scorps from africa but theyde probably do pretty well in the south western deserts, its probly cause a lot of phasmids are parthenogenic and so would have no problem multiplying.

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/26/2009, 9:46 am

The USDA doesn't care about arachnids -- I've asked 'em. Works out pretty well for most of us hobbyists. awesome

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/26/2009, 9:48 am

why do they care so much about phasmids then? Is it about destroying crops and such?

Subject: Re: Green Giant 5/26/2009, 9:57 am

Because they're parthenogenic, and they can feed on anything in the rose family -- which is a pretty huge family.

Wikipedia wrote:: The rose family is probably the third most economically important[citation needed] crop plant family (after the grass family and the pea family), including apples, pears, quinces, medlars, loquats, almonds, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and cut roses among the crop plants belonging to the family.