Eurycantha horrida or Thorny Stick Insect is found in Papua New Guinea.
They can be found in tropical rainforests in trees, shrubs and low on the ground often in leaf litter.
 
PSG 409 Eurycantha horrida
 
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Phasmatodea
Family: Lonchodidae
Subfamily: Lonchodidae
Genus: Eurycantha
Species: horrida
 
Food - Eurycantha horrida thorny stick insects will eat the leaves of blackberry, raspberry, wild rose, oak, beech, hazel
 
Description - Eurycantha horrida thorny stick insects can reach a length of about 12cm/4.7in for males and about 14cm/5.5in for females.
 
The body color ranges from pale green to brown. The young insects are glossy greenish and tend to climb, the adults will stay low to the ground due to being so large and heavy.
 
They have numerous small spines on their body and on their hind legs. Both sexes are wingless and look very similar.
 
They exhibit the sexual dimorphism of many phasmids, as the males are darker, smaller and thinner and have enlarged hind leg femurs with 2 curved spine or thorn on the underneath side - 1 large spine/spur plus a smaller one. Females are also brighter than the males and have a larger abdomen tipped with a beak-shaped ovipositor with which they lay the eggs in damp soil.
 
Breeding - Breeding Eurycantha horrida thorny stick insects is easy, all you need is 1 mature male and 1 female. The female will fatten up after a couple weeks of mating and will begin to lay eggs in the substrate. Eggs will begin to hatch 8-12 months after laying.
 
How We Keep Them - We use large rubs with plenty of ventilation and at least. 2 inches of damp leaf litter base, mist well every 1-2 days.
 
Where stated, we will supply the quoted sexed animals, on the smaller animals we will post them unsexed.
We will do our best so sex the animals if requested however, we never can guarantee the accuracy.