I am breeding Phyllium giganteum and have several times experienced males in my population. I have some theories concerning giganteum males that I would like to prove. Therefore if you are breeding giganteum and have or had males in your population I would like you to tell about it in this blog.
The attached PDF is a report by one of the NHM volunteers looking after the stick insects in the Sexual Nature exhibition.
Photographs the Summer 2010 PSG Meeting are now online at https://phasmid-study-group.org/category/Image-Galleries/8908.
If anybody else has photos they would like to share then please get in touch.
In a third major milestone in 24 hours the site has moved from using a partial phasmid taxonomy (used for development) to a complete phasmid taxonomy imported from Phasmida SpeciesFile. This means that taxon pages are now available for all phasmid taxa. The migration was done with the assistance of Simon Rycroft who works for the Scratchpad project.
This blog post is the 3,000th page to be posted to this website. Although that figure under-estimates the true number of pages by a long way. The reason for this is the page counter (bottom of the left menu) counts each piece of content (link, image, publication) entered as a page. So it doesn't include the page automatically created for every phasmid taxon (another 4, 536 pages).
Although it may sound like a lot there is still a huge way to go - most species, even those currently kept in culture, we don't even have images for. So keep sending your content in!
We have just passed the half-million views mark. Many thanks to all of the people who keep coming back and tell us what they like, and what's missing. So keep your feedback coming in!
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I have recently been making some changes to the way that Phasmid Studies is provided from this site. At present the journal can be downloaded in complete volumes only, but I will be making the transition to individual articles. This follows the vast majority of online journal providers. The ability to download full volumes will be retained.
Some new newsletter back issues have been made available for members. All of the issues for which I have been editor (109-115) are now available as PDFs. The remaining issues (43-108) will be added in batches over the cvoming months. Issues for which I have been sent digital copies of the original will be first, issues I have to scan will be added later.
The 'Forthcoming Events' page has now been updated to a Google Calendar. If you have a Google Calendar you can now subscribe to our calendar and automatically receive information on new events.
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