Huge and beautiful when adult, cute as anything when babies. We sell the recently hatched katydids, shipping them safely across the UK. Siliquofera grandis eat lots of different leaves , keep them humid and warm and don't over crowd them. Watch our videos (with audio) to learn how to care for your giant hooded katydids... but really they're pretty easy we just like to get it perfect. We also design and sell katydid mugs and clothes (shipped separately to insects). You don't need huge cages like ours in the videos; we're breeding them in large numbers. While it's summer you might not even need a heat mat but do keep an eye on the temperature and humidity using a meter. Keep them warm (22-26) and quite humid (70-85%, don't guess use a meter).  If you use net cages for this species you will need to take measures to keep the humidity high enough. 

The final skin shed (ecdysis) is quite tricky for this species, particularly the females. This is one reason we advise starting with a few more babies than you think you will want as adults.

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• Heating Setup:  we use these Inkbird thermostats and heat mats such as these attached to the outside of the glass enclosure. We insulate the outside of the cages with this foam roll and even put it over the heating mats but do that at your own risk - it's not advised! We also use these foam strips to modify cages and seal larger gaps around the doors of the cages but find the strips don't last indefinitely.

• We'd raise as many as 10 in this cage or more in this or a much larger colony in this lovely cage. In the past we've built cages using sheets like these.