We now have fertilised eggs of this beautiful, enormous and rarely offered species - 22 females of this generation are now adult. Watch our Eurycnema egg care video (the one with the plastic box) - it has a voice over.
Now with Royal Mail letter tracked 48 for only £2.70 postage - usually post Tuesdays
Postage is obviously more if you are outside of the UK and are purchased at your own risk. You need to be 100% sure that it is legal in your country to import these eggs.
All photos are of our insects.
We're breeding a lot of them in our biggest indoor green house cage and we now have 22 adult females and lots of adult males. We might have the biggest breeding colony in the Europe.
We do request you buy at least 15 eggs at a time - no upper limit although be sure you've got the space to house them all - thanks. If you buy some live insects (other species) at the same time we could post them all together and add something extra from the saved postage.
Ours feed very happily on oak, evergreen oak or eucalyptus
They apparently also eat Guava (leaves not the fruit!), beech (ours will accept it but prefer oak), and some others even use bramble but we don't advise it and ours say no, we've not forced them by removing other choices.
The photo with the female on the pipe cladding is our female from the previous generation, she mated with many different males and laid 700 eggs, we are raising those offspring and they are now adult, some are massive!
The first time you keep these we advise starting with plenty of eggs (definitely 20+) and where possible using oak, they're not a really easy species but this generation next to none of ours have died. If you've successfully kept jungle nymphs from hatchlings to adult you're probably fine BUT don't put these in with large jungle nymphs (ours are separate at all stages).
After some experimentation we now maintain 80-90% humidity, a large cage and 21-26 C for both the insects and eggs. Others say room temperature but we have more success than most.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurycnema_versirubra
https://phasmatodea.com/eurycnema-versirubra-timor (useful article but we don't agree with some of the food plants and we keep them all in the same big cage)
Our eggs from the last generation took 8-9 months to hatch at about 22-23 C, this is significantly longer than some sources report (we were a bit worried after 6 months) but we recorded the dates. We had a high hatch rate putting the eggs on top of some fine vermiculite in a ventilated plastic takeaway box which was only very occasionally misted with filtered water and kept at 22-23 C by placing it in a larger cage which also helped with humidity (80%). A bit warmer still should speed things along.
