Big stick insect - LIVING LEAF! (P. ericoriai) [Inferion7]

Phyllium ericoriai

2009 (Hennemann, Conle, Gottardo, Bresseel)

Class (Insects)
Insecta

Order (Phasmids, Ghost Insects, Leaf Insects)
Phasmatodea

Family (Leaf Insects, Walking Leaves)
Phylliidae

Genus
Phyllium

Species
P. ericoriai

In that terrarium there are:
Yellow adult female
Green adult female (+1 smaller)
Green adult male (2x)
Green adult female P. giganteum (if you look closely)

This video is about my walking leaves, especially about the yellow one. I have bought 5 P. ericoriai and 2 of them are adult males now, one female is still small and two of them are adult females - one is usual green and the other one is amazing yellow one. She used to be green too but she turned to the yellow color. You can see them in my previous video and you can also find Phillium giganteum in my previous 2 videos. First part is about handling and you can see yellow and green adult females – the yellow one is more active. The last molt (the adult one) of the yellow one was successfully finished on 24 of December this year, what a present! The second part is in their terrarium that is 60 x 40 x 30 cm big (height x length x width). You could have seen this terrarium in my previous videos about baby chameleons.

It’s pretty rare to see the yellow walking leaf, especially if we talk about Phyllium ericoriai, this species was described in 2009 (quite recently) and nowadays it has no PSG number, there is no info about it and so on. It’s a quite rare species but it’s similar to other walking leaves. I had more problems with P. giganteum to this species.

Music was composed by me using my digital stage piano Yamaha NP-V80 piaggero and also by some percussions soundpools, I worked in Audacity, Magix music maker and Sony Vegas 13 Pro.

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