Hatched an egg at last.

[starlingqueen]

Unfortunately it's a stick insect and not a bud.

I got my son a stick insect farm for christmas and one of them hatched today. You can't imagine the excitement in my house over an insect.  But he's, (or should I say she as nearly all stick insects are female) , is just so cute.

[samwiseg]

Brilliant!

God how I would have loved one of those as a kid!

Would have driven my mum mad lol!

[OP]

Pardon my ignorance but is that the insect that laid the egg, or is that the thing that hatched from the egg?

[skysmum]

LOVE stick insects, when i was a kid i got to bring the school ones home for the summer holidays, didn't want to take them back

[starlingqueen]

Jan 10, 2015 16:34:16 GMT OP said:

Pardon my ignorance but is that the insect that laid the egg, or is that the thing that hatched from the egg?

That's the one that came out of the egg OP. I had to send off for the eggs to go with the kit I bought, you get 10 eggs and this is the first to hatch. His rear end is still bent in that picture because he hadn't straightened out yet.

[starlingqueen]

Jan 10, 2015 16:04:37 GMT samwiseg said:

Brilliant!

God how I would have loved one of those as a kid!

Would have driven my mum mad lol!

Jan 10, 2015 16:39:51 GMT skysmum said:

LOVE stick insects, when i was a kid i got to bring the school ones home for the summer holidays, didn't want to take them back

I had them when I was about 14. Got them from school but didn't realise the little brown things were eggs, thought they were poo. I must have thrown hundreds out. Then one day I saw little ones and realised they must have hatched. I ended up with hundreds of them until I forgot to put the lid back on the tank one day. We were still finding stick insects years later, crawling up the curtains, in my mums sewing cabinet, in the kitchen cupboards, you name it we found them. They must have been living off my mums house plants.

[OP]

Thank you for that starlingqueen. I noticed the little bent bit, I thought perhaps it was a bit of camouflage. The must grow quite large then. I can't say I have had much to do with them. I have heard of them and seen pictures but that's about it.

[skysmum]

Jan 10, 2015 17:03:58 GMT starlingqueen said:

Jan 10, 2015 16:04:37 GMT samwiseg said:

Brilliant!

God how I would have loved one of those as a kid!

Would have driven my mum mad lol!

Jan 10, 2015 16:39:51 GMT skysmum said:

LOVE stick insects, when i was a kid i got to bring the school ones home for the summer holidays, didn't want to take them back

I had them when I was about 14. Got them from school but didn't realise the little brown things were eggs, thought they were poo. I must have thrown hundreds out. Then one day I saw little ones and realised they must have hatched. I ended up with hundreds of them until I forgot to put the lid back on the tank one day. We were still finding stick insects years later, crawling up the curtains, in my mums sewing cabinet, in the kitchen cupboards, you name it we found them. They must have been living off my mums house plants.

OMG i cleaned out all the what i thought was poo too . If i had known it was eggs i would have kept some to hatch my own .
My daughter did something similar last year with my grandaughter with butterflies, she loved it.

[starlingqueen]

I was going to get the butterfly one but knew we would be sad when we let them go. I can keep the stick insects.

[starlingqueen]

Why don't you get some now skysmum ? There are websites where you can get all different species.

[JennyB]

Seeing a baby anything come into the world is exciting. Looking forward to progress reports on the other eggs.

[skysmum]

Jan 10, 2015 18:13:52 GMT starlingqueen said:

I was going to get the butterfly one but knew we would be sad when we let them go. I can keep the stick insects.

I know, she did cry bless her but she knew what would happen and was also happy so see them fly free. My heart was in my mouth because when i was a child my dad used to bring me beautiful huge moths home from his night shifts, i used to keep them for a short while then let them go.

On letting one particular beauty go in the garden one day a big bird swooped straight down and took it, i was beside myself for weeks over that . Thankfully it didn't happen with hers

I have been tempted to get some sticky's, just have to convince OH that we need them

[birdguhl]

Congratuations, SQ! Very cute. I didn't know about this kind of hatch your own pets thing - interesting...

[skysmum]

If only we could do bud eggs like this

[starlingqueen]

Jan 10, 2015 19:27:54 GMT skysmum said:

Jan 10, 2015 18:13:52 GMT starlingqueen said:

I was going to get the butterfly one but knew we would be sad when we let them go. I can keep the stick insects.

I know, she did cry bless her but she knew what would happen and was also happy so see them fly free. My heart was in my mouth because when i was a child my dad used to bring me beautiful huge moths home from his night shifts, i used to keep them for a short while then let them go.

On letting one particular beauty go in the garden one day a big bird swooped straight down and took it, i was beside myself for weeks over that . Thankfully it didn't happen with hers

I have been tempted to get some sticky's, just have to convince OH that we need them

Awww that's awful. Reminded me of a sparrow we found and were looking after, it was doing really well and my daughter was looking after it so carefully, getting worms etc. She took it outside to show a neighbour and it tried to fly, landed on the floor at her feet and our cat pounced and killed it. She was devastated, cried for days saying it was all her fault. It didn't help that her sisters were agreeing with her.