Giant Insects UK
Eurycnema Versirubra - Timor Huge stick insects (UK bred) 39 pence per fertilised egg - recently laid (July-now), postage only £2.70
Eurycnema Versirubra - Timor Huge stick insects (UK bred) 39 pence per fertilised egg - recently laid (July-now), postage only £2.70
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
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 (20+) and where possible using oak, they're not usually seen as a really easy species but this generation next to none of ours have died except of old age.
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 find that's a bit vague.
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. A few hatched up to six months late so don't throw them away. 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.
The following text includes Amazon affiliate links to some products we use in rearing these beautiful insects.
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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.