Oreophoetes peruanas
Jeune femelle
One of the most beautiful stick, painted with colors like this to show
it's poisonous. If they are annoyed they secrete a toxic liquid, which
smell caoutchouc.
Fed with ferns (even horticulture ferns) , they are easy to keep.
Be careful about insecticid sprayed on horticulture ferns. It's better
to wait for new leaves before giving them to the sticks.
- Origin : Perou
- Food : fern
- male size (without legs) : 6 cm
- female size (without legs) : 7 cm
- eggs incubation : 3 month
- nymph : 5 month
adult male
