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You guys are having all the fun :cool:
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Praying Mantis on Jack pine, Pinus banksiana.
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Nice Grant

does anyone know what stick insects eat? I have one on a PinOak that has been there all summer and was wondering :lost:

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kcpoole wrote:Nice Grant

does anyone know what stick insects eat? I have one on a PinOak that has been there all summer and was wondering :lost:

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Other small insects you would imagine but it is fairly lean pickings at the NBPCA as we don't have too much problem with chewing insects; very few aphids in spring except maybe on the Crab apple.

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kcpoole wrote:Nice Grant

does anyone know what stick insects eat? I have one on a PinOak that has been there all summer and was wondering :lost:

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Other small insects you would imagine but it is fairly lean pickings at the NBPCA as we don't have too much problem with chewing insects; very few aphids in spring except maybe on the Crab apple.

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So long as it is not eating the foliage :-). I have not seen many bugs on it that were obvious

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I had two stick insects living among my bonsai benches a few years back. during the day they particularly liked the english elm since it is nearly always twiggy and leafless where I live, and they were fairly invisible on it.

at the time, the flower buds on my crepe myrtle were being chewed... it wasn't until I went out at night to find a stick insect wondering around the crepe at night, and then looking innocent at the other end of the bonsai benches by day... this habit occurred for a week... had to put them on the neighbours large tree across the road. I have had great flowering on the crepe ever since. the crepe across the road survived ok too ......

I suspect it was the stick insect, but it could have been some other miscreant.
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Leonarda wrote:I had two stick insects living among my bonsai benches a few years back. during the day they particularly liked the english elm since it is nearly always twiggy and leafless where I live, and they were fairly invisible on it.

at the time, the flower buds on my crepe myrtle were being chewed... it wasn't until I went out at night to find a stick insect wondering around the crepe at night, and then looking innocent at the other end of the bonsai benches by day... this habit occurred for a week... had to put them on the neighbours large tree across the road. I have had great flowering on the crepe ever since. the crepe across the road survived ok too ......

I suspect it was the stick insect, but it could have been some other miscreant.
Now that may be why my Kunzea Baxterii bit the dust a few years back. After it showed signs of distress I looked under the canopy and found two of the rascals there. As the tree was being trained in the weeping form they went unnoticed for a long time. Did they appear like this :whistle: during daytime Leonarda.

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Ash Barns wrote: Now that may be why my Kunzea Baxterii bit the dust a few years back. After it showed signs of distress I looked under the canopy and found two of the rascals there. As the tree was being trained in the weeping form they went unnoticed for a long time. Did they appear like this :whistle: during daytime Leonarda.

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What size Philips screw driver did you use to put the eyes on. ;) :whistle: :lol:
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Nice pick up Pup, thats funny
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What size Philips screw driver did you use to put the eyes on. ;) :whistle: :lol:
Very, very small ones of course.

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Reminds me of some pictures I saw on Flicker
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I have an old photo I took in Singapore about 25 years ago.

It is of a bicyclist with many layers of eggs on his back carry rack. The pile of eggs was about 500mm high!.

But it was raining!

So he had an umbrella up!

So he was riding in the rain with one hand on the handlebars and one hand holding up the umbrella with a pillion paasenger of about 500 eggs and riding in Singapore traffic!

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