What can I feed stick insects?

Stick insects need a diet of fresh leaves. Most will live on bramble and privet, but Indian stick insects eat privet, hawthorn and rose as well. The leaves should be kept on the twig and stood in a pot of water with a cover to prevent the insects drowning.

Can stick insects eat dry leaves?

Stick insects only eat fresh leaves. To ensure the leaves you offer them stay fresh, you have to put the branches with leaves on them in a vase with water in it. Exactly like cut flowers! ... You need to replace the food when the leaves become too dry or when the branches are completely stripped of their leaves.