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Phasmid Species Cultured / Attempted', a Title Which Stayed Until 1984, When It Became The Phasmid Study Group DECEMBER 2004 NEWSLETTER No 100 ISSN 0268-3806 Soecial Edition to celebrate the 100th Edition of the PSG Picture by Mike Strick December 2004 Newsletter 700.1 Website: www.stickinsect.org.uk December 2004 Newsletter "700.2 Website: www.stickinsect.org.uk Welcome to the December PSG Newsletter. ISSUE 100!!! And on behalf of the PSG Committee, I wish all readers a very M&xrxry CZtri.s tm.a.s , and a Hajpjpy Ne~w Year. NEWSLETTER No 100. I am really proud for the privilege of editing the 100th edition of the PSG Newsletter. We have tried to make it a little more special than usual; I hope the membership enjoy this very unique read. When people ask me what my hobbies are, and I say I currently edit '/// a Newsletter on stick insects, I often get doubts that the subject is either interesting or exhaustive. Well now, 100 editions of the Newsletter should surely prove our point. Incidentally, all 100 editions of the PSG Newsletter are available to members, obviously for a small fee - so see page 27 for details. Also, to continue receiving the PSG Newsletters, do not forget to renew your membership - renewal form is on page 33 of this Newsletter. NEWSLETTER No 1. As part of celebrating Issue No 100 of the PSG Newsletter, I have included at the back, for your nostalgic perusal, a copy of the very first PSG .*«*rSC*ir~vT»' Newsletter - PSG Newsletter No 1, 1980. Special thanks to Tony James for permission 5 - B^j-iKSMHHS; to do so. (Apologies for its quality - it is a copy, of a copy, of a...). 25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PSG. The January PSG AGM & Winter Meeting on Saturday, 22nd January, 2005, marks an amazing 25th Anniversary of the PSG. Again, efforts have been made to make this meeting a bit special. If you can attend only one PSG AGM & Winter Meeting in % Happy your lifetime - this is the one to go for. And I cannot make it! I have a really pressing alternative engagement; it has its compensations but I am really devastated to be missing Twenty-Fifth this particular meeting. Please don't make the same mistake! Be there, and enjoy. [And Anniversary please send me photos and reports on it for the March PSG Newsletter.] The agenda for the meeting appears on page 31 of this Newsletter. Special Thanks. May I take this opportunity to thank all the contributors, to all the past Newsletters in general, and to this special edition of the Newsletter in particular. Without you, there would be no Newsletter. Very special thanks to Mike Strick, for that astounding picture on the front cover of this issue. Also to Rev Joy, who assisted me in copy-typing some hand-written articles I'd received, thus saving me much time and grief. Merry Christmas to you both! Finally, as many readers will know, I had an eye operation in October for a detached retina. I'm doing okay now, but many, many thanks to everyone who sent me their best wishes for a speedy recovery. Regards to all IN/I IKE SMITH IND Page Content Page Content 2 The Colour Page 19 Our Stick/Leaf Insect Pets 3 Editorial 20 Colchester Zoo Invertebrate Show 4 Diapherodes gigantea Cultures 21 The Maintenance of Phasmid Cultures 4 Epidares nolimetangere Heart Attacks 22 Growing Eucalyptus Cultures From Seed 5 New Look PSG Website 25 A Short Trip to Europe 6 Puzzle Time 27 PSG Merchandise 7 Stick Talk 28 Wants & Exchanges 8 Stick Talk - How it All Began 28 Does Anyone Want GALS? 9 PSG Livestock & Picture Competition 29 Diary Dates 10 PSG Species List [History of] 30 AES Exhibition 2004 14 Editing the PSG Newsletter 31 PSG AGM Agenda 15 Origin Of Species List 32 PSG Committee 18 AESShow 33 PSG Membership Renewal Form 19 My Phasmid Hobby At Back - PSG Newsletter No 1. FREE COPY December 2004 Newsletter 100.3 Website: www.stickinsect.org.uk Diapherodes gigantea by Alan Hendy [Editor's Note: I much appreciate this article from Alan - particularly as in his excellent article on Eurycnema goliath in the September Newsletter I unfortunately spelt his name wrong, for which I make my apologies.] When Diapherodes gigantea first came into PSG culture Ian Abercrombie as requested gave me some nymphs to rear. Unfortunately, over the months they all died I think due to me keeping them too dry, as I kept them with my E. goliath nymphs before reaching adulthood, except for one female which remained unmated throughout her stay with me. At the PSG meeting in July, I brought her up for someone to take her on if they had some males. As an adult she laid many eggs, and in early May they started hatching. Almost all of the nymphs have survived, and are now on their 3rd or 4th instar. To start off I put the nymphs on a large Albizia shrub in the front garden, as it was warm and quite showery most of the time being summer! The nymphs have all turned out as females, as expected, as this culture is beyond a doubt parthenogenic. They accepted the Albizia as a food plant up to the first nymphs coming up to 3rd instar, when I then gathered them up over a few days, as they were hard to spot being almost the same colour as the food plant. They would hide underneath the leaves during the day and then feed at night when they could be seen on top as well as below the leaves, almost always returning to the same space under the leaf spine during the day. On overcast days some could be seen occasionally feeding and wandering over the leaves, instead of being static until dusk. I had feared for a while that some had been taken by wasps, as the caterpillars on my climbing Tropeolum had been killed and physically carried off (an impressive sight), leaving the very small ones presumably till they grow to a more worthwhile size. I now have, at time of writing, 16 nymphs up to 4th instar feeding on Eucalyptus and Bay leaves, indoors in a humid environment. They prefer Eucalyptus above the Bay and Albizia if given a choice. This species for me personally has not been the easiest to keep, but is rewarding when I get it right, and the added bonus with it now being parthenogenic as well. Incidentally, regarding wasps, I have noticed that, when dragonflies are flying, wasps have been less numerous and sometimes totally absent, even when the temptation of food is available. ////////////////////////////////////////// A\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Do Epi dares nolimetang&re (PSG99) Adults Have Heart Attacks? by Rachael Marriott PSG No 1992 I have noticed that PSG 99 adults just collapse to the floor of their tank, for no apparent reason, and become lifeless on the floor. When picked up they are still lifeless, like they are dead, because they do not move any of their legs or antenna. I first noticed this when I was cleaning their tank out, and had put them back again. I had cleaned the tank using normal washing-up liquid. So I do not know why they went lifeless, but it might have been when as I used the washing up liquid in their tank - they must have breathed in the washing up liquid smell, which in turn knocked them out. But how come the nymphs did not get knocked out by the washing-up liquid smell, as three of them live with the adults? The washing-up liquid I use to use in their tank was the normal green-looking liquid, which has a nutty fresh smell, and this did not previously affect the stick insects at all I have found. But going back to the stick insects when they have gone lifeless, they are like this for about 2-4 hours, and then they start to come round. I did take the adults away from the three nymphs, and put them in a separate tank to recover. And I did lose a couple of them, because they did not come round from it and were definitely dead. The other adult stick insects did come round from the lifeless state and were put back in the tank with the three nymphs again. I have since had the stick insects twice become lifeless like this again, but this time not all at once. This time it was just a couple of them. I have had another stick insect fall off a leaf onto the floor on its back; this was a female and she too was lifeless. No movement, but she did come round from it like the others did; she is a bit paralysed in the front leg on her right side, though apart from that she is all right. So if anyone can tell me if this has happened to your PSG 99 Epidares nolimetangere I would like to hear from you, as I do not know why they went like they did. It could be that they are really old and they had a stroke or heart attack which would knock a human out for however long, before they came round or in some cases didn't. Please help me with this if you can. E-mail me at [email protected] with your answers. Thanks Rachael. You raise interesting questions on whether stick insects can have strokes or heart attacks, and if they should be cleaned out with soapy water. Please can members send answers for the next PSG Newsletter.
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