Help, stick insects are dying

Community and Forum → Insects breeding → Help, stick insects are dying

Jarlaxle, 01.03.2010 23:39

In general, this is the situation, I took five tiny Annam stickmen in October. I froze them a lot of raspberries, currants, oak, etc. They grew well. Then a couple of months later, a friend gave me his hibiscus. Then I was very stupid and threw out the remains of other plants, as it turned out in vain. We lived on the same hibiscus, molted the last molt remained and then everything stalled. They started gnawing on the stems. I thought they'd grown up. It turned out that the monotonous diet did its job. They died one by one.
I wrote to another friend who took stick insects in the same place, and asked him to share his offspring after breeding. He offered to simply give his own along with a supply of lime trees. I took four more stick insects from him, they were tiny, they ate dry leaves. I began to feed them hibiscus and lime trees, again everything was fine, they developed successfully, one even became an adult insect. And today I noticed that he was gnawing on the hibiscus stalks again. I have a bad feeling about this! What to do? Can completely eliminate hibiscus and give only linden? Or is it something else? Please help me.