Eurycantha Calcarata - help please

[Stefan-A]

I'm not really a bug fan... never really saw the attraction of stick insects, but if it's useful to anyone, here's an anecdote....

When I was about 10 years old I acquired a group of stick insects from the biology lab at school. I soon became bored (as 10 year olds do) so I decided to find out how stick insects react to alcohol...... I injected pure (as pure as you can get) ethanol into the anus of one large specimen.... quite a large dose too!
The results? The bug hung motionless from a twig, hanging by one foot, for several days. It then recovered completely, showing no long term adverse effects.
I can't remember if it ever sang 'Auld Lang Sine'.

Hey! I was ten years old!

We did something like that to a group of Idothea balthica and Idothea chelipes (marine isopods) last spring. They were supposed to be euthanized as a part of an experiment. We started with something like a 25% solution. No effect, the little buggers kept swimming around like nothing ever happened. Then we tried with the purest stuff they had in the lab, had them in there for 20 minutes. Still no effect. I think I heard one of them ask for the wine list.

No wonder arthropods have been around for 500+ million years.

[adamanteus]

I do a similar thing to my own body every night.... but I still get up at 6am and go to work.... isn't nature fascinating?

[infernalis]

You swim in alcohol, or Ahem, give ahh nevermind

[Stefan-A]

I do a similar thing to my own body every night.... but I still get up at 6am and go to work.... isn't nature fascinating?

Oh, absolutely.

[adamanteus]

I did say 'similar' not 'the same'!

[infernalis]

Oh so you put it in the other end

[aSnakeLovinBabe]

James - once again.....

AHAHAHAHAHHAHA

that was almost as funny as the naked with a snake in front of a guest story!!!

[prattypus]

See, if we were to put those two stories together, there may be no saving this forum...

[adamanteus]

Off topic, I know......
Jason, I like the names you've chosen for your parietalis.