Does putting stick insects in a freezer to die hurt the stick insects do they feel anything?????

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I think its regarded as being pretty humane. They have a small enough body mass that they freeze quite quickly, and in invertebrates, a reduction in temperature slows down their metabolism until it stops, so is a fairly humane method. They would likely feel very little.

There arent really a lot of options - drowning is slow and painful and crushing them is just horrific. I'm not convinced about Co2 either - it can be used as an anesthetic, but i'm not sure if suffocation in such a manner would be quick or humane.

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The most humane was is crushing though tbh.. They still freeze to death.. Putting them in the fridge to slow them down then into the freezer is the "done" thing..

No-one really knows what they feel.

Why would you want to kill stick insects ? ?

there only indian ones and there just laying too many eggs and nobody wants them and there over populating and i only wanna kill the babies and i carnt find the eggs because the tanks too big

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Awww poor things.. Give them to pet shops?

use them as food!!!!!!

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Inverts are anethesized in cold weather/conditions. Crushing is just horrible. At least chilling is a non-violent and relatively peaceful way to die.

You might even be able to kill them in the fridge, ive heard that some tropical inverts are very chill sensitive, such as tailless whip scorpions which die after 1-2 hrs in the fridge. Perhaps your sticks would be similar.

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