Brown Diapherodes G

[Dilbert]

How lame am I?
Sitting in front of the computer a Friday night.
Anyway of all my Diapherodes Giganteas only one female turned out brown.
She isnt at all as beutiful as the green ones (atleast on the outside) but she was the only one, which makes her a little rare.
Will her offspring be brown or is that a lottery since her mom was green?

[lamb12380]

A brown female, ive never even heard of that, have you got any pics?

[diapherodes7]

i have diapherodes!!!!! i have only ever sen a brown male!!! never a brown female!! diapherodes7

[Ian]

Don't worry Chris - I'll buy you a virtual pint if you're on the PC next Friday :D

Brown DG, never seen one of those either. Did you manage to get any photos?

[Morpheus_UK]

GET SOME PHOTOS!!!!
lol, the only other colour morph i have seen with them is a picture on a phasmid site which was almost black :eek:

[Dilbert]

I have pictures but the www hates me never lets me attach them!!!!!!
I will try in the Gallery go there and find out if I managed

[Dilbert]

btw Ian, can I have virtual Guinnes in that case?

[Taz Devil]

http://www.beerbrains.com/guinness.jpg
Have this one on me

[Dilbert]

Thanks Taz
Did you see that I managed to post pics on the brown DG female?!

[Ian]

Awesome Chris!

Here is is guys:

http://www.insectstore.com/phasmid/gallery/files/1/5/7/dsc_0792_original.jpg

[Dilbert]

She has one moult to go and the hand is a kidnapped kids hand

[stickinsect123]

Its a lovely looking species. Is she your favourite?

[Dilbert]

I like her amongst the other DG,s because she,s so different.
Cant wait to see what she will look like when adult!
DG, are definately among my favorite species but I like to think that I havent seen my
all time fave yet. I have eggs of Necroscia Annulipes and I think that they are beutiful (from pictures) and I cant wait for them to hatch.

[Ian]

She has one moult to go and the hand is a kidnapped kids hand

Do you have just the one child, or a collection? :D

[Dilbert]

I have three, I think.
Atleast heres three running around acting as they lived here, most of the time.
I am an oldtimer.
Wasn t anyone supposed to tell me weather I will get brown offspring from a brown
female??
I guess its a lottery since her mother was green.

[Dilbert]

Statusreport.
All has gone to "(%(QX#/("%34
The brown DG moulted last night and the sucker turned std DG green!!!!!!!!!

[Taz Devil]

Time to get your water colours out and a fine paint brush.

[Morpheus_UK]

Lol, shame adult coloration is usually consist ant, nice coloration on her at sub though

[Daniel Ballmer]

Hi

It's completely normal. Female nymphs of this species can be brown or even green-brown marmorated for a stage or two. But unfortunately, every record I know turned green with reaching adulthood...

[Longy]

Unlucky :P Interstingly this is ironic because now your angry that she's turned green when the point of this thread was to complain that she wasn't :D

[Dave]

Theres one thats even darker, its actually called the Black Diapherodes Giganteum:). Its not actually black, just really dark brown like a EC

[Dilbert]

As I recall it I was more or less annoyed with the fact that I was sitting infront of the computer a Friday night. But I thought the DG was a bit rare but perhaps not as beutiful as the green ones, but that is obviously fixed now.

[Dave]

The green ones are pretty dang nice, but it's also nice to have something a little different:)