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These beautiful animals do
not have a common name but their scientific name is
Haaniella dehaani.
They are a very spiny species of stick
insect from the rainforests of Sarawak on the
island of Borneo. This first picture is a
close-up of the face of a mature female, showing off
her unusual looks!
The picture directly below
is of two mature females, which as you can see are
quite large and very attractive!

These two pictures are of a
mature male which is really quite
spiny all over, and certainly considerably more
spiny than the females above!


I have successfully bred
this species a couple of times so have been able to
watch them grow from newly hatched nymphs into fully
grown adults, which has been fascinating to see.
The ova of this species are velvety in appearance
and are quite large considering the adult size, and
look like this:

The picture below is of
four newly hatched nymphs, some of which grew
into the adults above! The nymphs are
relatively large for newly hatched stick insects
because of the large size of the ova. The nymphs
take just 6-7 months to mature, which as you can
see is still quite a large change in size despite
them starting their lives as big as they do!

Nymphs produced from eggs
laid by the same female can hatch for some
time following the first ones hatching, because of
the numbers of eggs the adult female can lay over a period of time.
The pictures below show a newly hatched nymph next
to one of its older siblings at about 6-8 weeks old, showing the
amazing size
difference between nymphs hatching just weeks apart!



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