One of the stranger questions relating to stick insect diets is whether or not they eat ants. In a word, no. Ants have a lot of predators, but stick insects are not one of them. Stick insects do...
Month: January 2021
Some species of stick insects look so strange that it is easy to imagine them being carnivorous. However... Stick insects are herbivores. This means they will not eat bugs of any kind. They will...
Some species of living creatures are known for cannibalistic behaviour, including eating their babies. Stick insects are not among them. As herbivores, stick insects only eat plant life. They could...
Keeping a stick insect as a pet requires knowing what to feed it. Stick insects are herbivores, meaning they only eat plant life. The question is, do they eat fruit? Most guides to keeping stick...
The sheer number of stick insect species (around 3000 of them) suggests that privet and bramble are not the only foods they will eat. Perhaps you have even wondered if stick insects eat bamboo? I...
Basil is a tropical plant that offers many culinary uses to us humans. But will stick insects eat it? Possibly, but there are no guarantees. The fact that stick insects are herbivores suggests that...