Greetings from Karlsruhe

[exe]

Hallo to all of you!

I joined the phasmid forum yesterday and want to introduce myself now.

My name is Thomas van de Kamp and I'm 26 year old.

I'm an entomologist and currently working at the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe, Germany.
I have done some research about the phasmid egg shell in the past. Now, I'm going to create an egg collection for the museum and take photos of all the different phasmid eggs to publish some kind of an egg catalogue in the future (thread (http://www.insectstore.com/phasmid/showthread.php?t=515)).

However, I'm also keeping phasmids at home, so here's my (short) breeding list:

PSG No. 004 Sipyloidea sipylus
PSG No. 023 Eurycantha calcarata
PSG No. 111 Eurycantha insularis
PSG No. 235 Brasidas samarensis
PSG No. 270 Peruphasma schultei
PSG No. 272 Spinohirasea bengalensis
PSG No. 284 Pharnacia ponderosa

Besides phasmids, I'm also keeping some ant species.

I'm looking forward to meet you all!

Best regards
Thomas

[Taz Devil]

Hello and welcome to the forums.

I hope we can be of help in your quest to catalogue and photograph all phasmid eggs.

[Ian]

Hi Thomas. It's great to have someone like you on the forum, and what you are doing with the phasmid catalog really is great.

Hope to speak to you more soon!

[Brian]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

[stickinsect123]

Hi and welcome!

[lamb12380]

I also keep phasmids and ants, may I ask what ants you keep?

[natonstan]

hmm Ants... do you keep them in those Ant farm things?

[exe]

I also keep phasmids and ants, may I ask what ants you keep?
I keep the following species:

Camponotus fallax
Camponotus herculeanus
Camponotus ligniperda
Cataglyphis rosenhaueri
Formica fusca
Formica cunicularia
Lasius flavus
Rhytidoponera metallica

hmm Ants... do you keep them in those Ant farm things?
No, i keep the starting colonies in laboratory glasses, the bigger colonies in ytong nests connected to an arena.