Meet The Team! Click the video above!

What Are We Doing?

Overall, the main aim of this project is to maintain an enclosure for our Purple Winged Stick Insects. To do this we have to research, design and establish the components to keeping an enclosure for this species. Some of the components for this enclosure include abiotic and biotic factors, lifespan and diet. We hope to educate you about not only the insects, but how to keep them alive! As you explore our website, you will find interesting facts and information. We hope you enjoyed the introduction video above and we wish that you read the blog below to see further updates.

Our in-depth study for biology has provided our group with a different approach as well as a thorough delve into an ecosystem for a stick insect specifically and the factors both we and the environment played a role in maintaining. The roles of abiotic and biotic factors had a major influence and impact on the population count, more so than we could imagine. Their diet in play with the surrounding enclosure temperature and lux levels caused a small number of casualties. Their diet in hand with their breeding speeds made over 100+ eggs for us to look after. Being the people that held responsibility for maintaining the ecosystem dynamics, we began to understand the impacts of human interference with the enclosure. This can be seen when we had that one week where not only the week was abnormally hot in relativity to the previous weeks, but also there was a shortage in leaves and inability to spray more water to counteract it. Nonetheless, this depth study proved to be a useful and valuable hands-on based project that enabled us to build more skills and develop our knowledge on the content of biology.