#heteropteryx

[snototter]

A Malayan jungle nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata) in the Citadelle de Besançon's Insectarium, France

by oceanebej2000

#malayan jungle nymph #jungle nymph #stick insects #phasmids #heteropteryx dilatata #heteropteryx #Heteropterygidae #phasmatodea #insecta #arthropoda #captive animal

[chuchu666yay]

#heteropteryx? #more like #homopteryx #stick insect #bugs #insects #bugblr #malaysian jungle nymph

[mellify]

Jungle nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata)

#insects #Phasmatodea #phasmid #entomology #photography #original

[briery]

Insect eggs from left to right: clusters of Atlas moth eggs; Saturniid moth eggs; Madagascan comet moth eggs; Extatosoma tiaratum eggs (Macleay’s Spectre Stick Insect); Heteropteryx dilatata eggs (Jungle Nymph Stick Insect).

#egg #eggs #insect #insects #insect egg #insect eggs #moth #moths #atlas moth #atlas moths #moth egg #moth eggs #saturniid #saturniids #madagascan comet moth #madagascan comet moths #stick insect #stick insects #stick insect egg #stick insect eggs #macleay's spectre stick insect #extatosoma #extatosoma tiaratum #jungle nymph stick insect #heteropteryx #heteropteryx dilata #nature

[coolbugs]

Bug of the Day

A magnificent Malaysian jungle nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata) from The Caterpillar Lab.

#Malaysian stick insect #Malaysian jungle nymph #Heteropterygidae #Heteropteryx #Heteropteryx dilatata #stick insect #phasmid #Phasmida #Phasmatodea

[cive]

Anastasia, the jungle nymph. She had a little bit of a crappy molt so her wings are a little worse for wear, but she's surprisingly friendly for a jungle nymph and gets around easily despite her wings.

#uploads #Jungle nymph #Heteropteryx dilatata #Heteropterygidae #Invertebrates #My zoo

[lovingexotics]

Jungle Nymph Heteropteryx dilatata Source: Here

#Heteropteryx dilatata #jungle nymph #insect #insects #bug #bugs #animal #animation #wildlife #nature

[pwlanier]

Selection of four big jungle Nymphes (Heteropteryx dilatata) under Charles X glass dome.

Spectandum

[brella-boi]

Catching up with days!

Day 27:  P. moniliferus babuyanensis Weevil Day 28: Banana Eel Day 29:  Heteropteryx dilatata Stickbug

#huevember #stickbug #weevil #eel #bug #insect #bug art #insect art #stick insect #huevember21 #myart #actually really happy with these!! #insects

[snapsicle]

Jungle Nymph (Heteropteryx dilatata) Female (left) vs. Male (right) 

#cool bugs #bugs #insects #entomology #jungle nymph #stick insects #stick bugs #bugblr

[terranlifeform]

#jungle nymph #Heteropteryx dilatata

[jaybug-jabbers]

I never posted on my Tumblr (just to Twitter) about this trip from last year, so I thought, why not post it here?

I was in Canada visiting relatives, and learned about the existence of The Victoria Bug Zoo. Obviously, I had to go.

The ‘zoo’ is geared mostly to kids, but it’s plenty informative and very adult-friendly as well. (Just don’t be surprised if you have to share the place with lots of human larvae.) Although from the ouside it seems to occupy a relatively small building space, it’s a surprisingly large collection, and there’s plenty of variety and awesome things to check out. I spent several hours there. I wanted to stay longer, but I was travelling with my family and they were getting bored and antsy for lunch. (haaa! … sorry)

There are a number of docents leading regular tours to the zoo, visiting the different exhibits and giving informational talks, as well as giving people the chance to pet and even hold the bugs themselves. In one of the photos above I’m holding a female Malaysian stick insect (Heteropteryx dilatata), a very hefty buggo! She was beautiful and had grabby little feet. :3

I also held a giant milipede– a giant African millipede, I believe– which was freaking incredible. All those dozens and dozens of soft little feet clinging to your arm at once and undulating in little waves made it feel like gentle rippling velcro. Eeeee I love milipedes so much. Gorgeous.

They had a number of tarantulas and I held one of those as well. I’ve kept tarantulas as pets when I was a kid but I didn’t hold ‘em back then. I was always nervous about the urticating hairs. Bites, eh, not that big a deal, but dang, fiberglass-hair made me wary. Anyway, point is, first time I held a tarantula. I was surprised– it feels like they have little cat feet! All that weight placed on such a teeny tiny padded surface area, distributed perfectly and silently.

The centerpiece of the Victoria Bug Zoo’s collection is an incredibly impressive leaf-cutter ant colony. A large number of plexiglass chambers are mounted onto the wall, and huge lengths of clear pipe run along the ceiling and across the room. Holy crap you guys. I could spend hours staring at all the parts to this colony. (well, I kinda did heh heh) In the photo up there– I had to borrow that particular one from TripAdvisor because I was only snapping pictures with my cellphone and they were largely crap– it doesn’t even show the entire thing, and doesn’t really do it justice. It was so much fun.

In that same photo, the small terrarium the kid is pressed up against? That has hissing cockroaches. If you look at the fourth photo in this collection, that’s the one. They had the terrarium decorated with dollhouse stuff for the cockroaches to stamp around in and feel like Very Big Bugs. I admit I found it very cute.

I also got a photo of a freshly molted Giant Brazilian cockroach! (that is why he is shock-white) He finished molting while we were there.

Other photos– the spiders here are a Martinique Pink Toe Tarantula and, of course, a Black Widow. After that is a White-spotted assassin bug. They had some really cool beetles, too, and other stuff I’m forgetting now!

I essentially had to be dragged away from there. XD But seriously, def. worth checking out if you’re ever in Victoria BC. So funnnnn. And the docents did a great job. Seriously, hats off to them.

This is a repost on a new blog. The original post was on April 8, 2017.

#bugs #mycontent #bugwatching #long post #spiders #cockroaches #my bugwatching #arachnids

[pangur-and-grim]

me + my housemate were discussing what our fursonas would be, and with my entire heart/soul i INSTANTLY thought Heteropteryx dilatata 

#Greer

[eurycantha]

jungle nymph - heteropteryx dilatata

#entomology #arthropod #bugblr #insects #bugs #insectblr #walking leaf #jungle nymph #phasmatodea

[platycryptus]

I like your stick insects! I was surprised to see someone else raising phasmids, though I guess we've got to keep them on the down-low in the US so they're not a very common sight on tumblr. I've got a few walking leaves, thorny devils are interesting but I'm a little afraid of the spurs, I'll admit. I think I'd start with a Macleay's spectre if I was going to raise stick insects, I think the ones that look like lichens are neat. Do you raise other phasmids, or just the devils?

I keep the devils, Macleay’s spectres, budwings (Phaenopharos khaoyiensis- nice species, they’re large “typical stick”- types sticks with teeny, bright red wings) and native Diapheromera femorata. I’ve tried and failed to raise eggs Diapherodes gigantea, Phyllium siccifolium, Sunguya inexpextata and Heteropteryx dilatata in the past, mostly because few or none of them hatched to begin with.

The spectres are nice (right now I have 2 adult females, 2 males, a bunch of tiny nymphs and wayyyy more eggs than I know what to do with), but if you live in a part of the country with a cold climate they can be tough to feed. They only eat rosids like blackberry and oak, they won’t eat any of the common evergreen plants in my area. So I have a few plastic bags full of oak leaves in my freezer to keep em fed through the winter months.

The lichen forms are very pretty, but I have yet to get any lichens or green forms out of my broods, only varying shades of reddish brown and tan. The color differences are environmental, not genetic. Different temperatures, foodplants and humidity levels (as well as adding lichen to the enclosure) seems to be what helps nymphs achieve prettier colors.

A couple of my spectres from last year, my current specimens aren’t this nice.

Not my insect, but a beautiful Phyllium giganteum I got to hold awhile back. P. giganteum is my dream species, sadly they’re a little harder to obtain and not the easiest species to keep alive.

Don’t fear the devils. I suspect they get their bad reputation from people who think you should pick up insects by grabbing them with no forethought. Treat them with respect and they’ll return the favor.

[typhlonectes]

“Jungle nymph" aka Malaysian stick insect (Heteropteryx dilatata) female, California Academy of Sciences , San Francisco, CA, USA

photograph by biologist Tim Wong

#stick insect #insects #museums #animals #nature #malaysia #asia