Name: GIANT Stick Insect | Jungle Nymph | Creature Feature
Uploaded: 2018-03-23T18:05:27.000Z
Duration: 10 min 56 s
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This looks good. I would rock a hair accessory like this. Hey guys it's Em and today

The series where I tell you more about an animal that you don't often see on YouTube

And that you might not know things about.

I don't know if they're going to get it, Malay

Ha Malay over here is a Jungle Nymph. Yes. I know that name is amazing.

I wish that I could run around claiming to be a Jungle Nymph, but alas I am a homosapien

she is a giant stick insect. She is one of the largest insects in the world

I believe the Jungle Nymphs actually lay the largest eggs in the insect world

The eggs are really huge and the eggs are so cool. It looks like dinosaur eggs

They really look like something out of Jurassic park

When the eggs hatch and the nymphs are born they're very, very small

they almost look kind of like a- like a large ant

And straightaway they start eating, eating, eating

Just foraging, trying to get as much size as possible.

The males, you can always tell the males are very dark, black color.

The females are kind of like a beige color

That's how you know that they're going to grow up into being females

Their life span is only two years which is amazing when you think it can take a year to a year and a half for the eggs to hatch.

Jungle Nymphs come from the Malay Archipelago

the male Jungle nymphs look completely different

Looking at the male as compared to the female

the males are much, much smaller the females are

Vastly bigger than the males also the males have wings which they can use for flight

They can actually fly whereas the female over here, Malay

now malay does have these beautiful wings at the back here that actually pink underneath

the only reason that she would ever really use her wings which are not strong enough to actually lift

If their threatened they can actually move them together and make a kind of like a trembling hissing sound and that's supposed to keep predators away

She does look very f- That was in my nose.

Look in the eyeball. (This is far more hazardous than I had expected) they will infect your eyeball juice with their wandering groping Antennae

Not again in the nose. Oh my God malay over here is a herbivore

She's only interested really in bramble leaves privet leaves and a couple of other leaves such as raspberry

Although Jungle Nymphs are this beautiful lime green color. They're actually nocturnal meaning

They might come out in the daytime for a little bit just to have a little bit of a browse and some food

But typically they're mostly active at night which is why she's starting to wake up because we're coming up to 8:00 p.m. here in the U.K.

This is the size of an adult female all she has to do now is deposit eggs

So can you see down here on her abdomen? She's got this sort of hatch over here.

This thick part well inside there. She's forming an egg

Can you see that browness inside her that's a large egg which she's going to get ready to deposit after she deposits her egg

And they will pass away shortly afterwards

She will actually take the time to climb down and find some moss or some nice moist soil

And she will actually bury down into soil and gently deposit that egg

It actually takes between 11 and 18 months for the egg to hatch. Now when it comes to protecting herself

she doesn't have any Venom or any poison and

Usually you would think that they might have a venom or a poison because of this bright Vivid color. In the animal Kingdom

Bright Vivid colors are usually a warning sign. It's saying stay away from me

I taste disgusting please don't eat me but from Malay over here

Number one what she does is she stays very still a lot of the time she would usually be near the tops of trees

So these green colors make her look a bit like a leaf the other things she can do is if she's being attacked

Do you see these amazing spiky legs of hers? These spiky legs I can tell you from experience

Are no joke they feel akin to those of a rosebush if you imagine gripping hard onto a rosebush thorn

That's what their legs feel like she does like an amazing thigh grip on you

And it hurts so much so that you just want to shake her off and let her go

Something else that Malay can do if she can pretend to be a scorpion

I don't think she's going to do it for us today because she's very used to being handled

but this abdomen over here if she were really

Scared she could bring it right over to where her head is to make it look like the scorpion sting and that's supposed to

Threaten you. Malay is also a little bit of a drama queen something else

She can do if she senses danger if she can let go of the branches that she's holding herself on and fall to the floor

That way she can make a very quick escape from danger if she senses any.

But also to appear dead because plenty of animals don't want to eat something that's already dead so she basically just goes like oh

I can't take it anymore and just like throws herself onto the floor so um

She's a little bit of a drama queen we share that in common. Don't we yes we do

Oh, spiky on the nose. Now let's talk about Jungle Nymphs as pets because yes

you can keep them as a pet and I think that they make fascinating pets for the right family or

Individual. The way that Malay is kept is she is in a large Flexarium. A flexarium that we got from Exo Terra.

The Flexarium's are great because they enable her to climb. Because the flexarium is made of a sort of very durable waterproof fabric

Um it enables them to be able to climb all over whereas if they were in a glass tank for example

They wouldn't enjoy it quite as much. We spray them twice a day with water because they like a high humidity and they do have

Special heating so the heating the way that we keep them is we keep them at about Thirty degrees Celsius

So we keep them during the heat of the day at 30 degrees Celsius and that drops down to about

22 at night. As I said before they do eat bramble leaves and privet leaves you might already have it in your garden

Or you can grow it yourself. It's super easy

It's not then you can just collect it because there's loads around, but if you are going to collect

Bramble leaves or privet leaves, just make sure that you're collecting from an area which doesn't use pesticides because pesticides

Will kill your stick insect, and we don't want to do that do we no, we'd never do that to you because you're beautiful kisses

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