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Keeping Insects

Caring for a praying mantis, butterflies, stick insects and beetles

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    • Why keep bugs?
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  • General care
    • Enclosure and Housing
    • The right temperature
    • Humidity and drinking water
    • Food plants
    • Live insects as food
    • Breeding fruit flies
  • Praying mantis
    • General mantis info
    • Mantis species
      • African Mantis
      • Arizona Unicorn Mantis
      • Budwing Mantis
      • Carolina mantis
      • Chinese Mantis
      • Dead Leaf Mantis
      • Devils Flower Mantis
      • Egyptian Pygmy Mantis
      • European Mantis
      • Gambian Spotted-Eye Mantis
      • Ghost mantis
      • Giant Asian Mantis
      • Indian Flower Mantis
      • Metallyticus splendidus
      • Orchid Mantis
      • Sphodromantis baccettii
      • Spiny Flower Mantis
      • Thistle Mantis
      • Wandering Violin Mantis
    • Caring for a mantis
    • Mating and breeding
    • Hatching mantis eggs
    • Male or female mantis?
    • Mantis FAQ
    • 6 Astonishing Mantis Facts
  • Stick insect
    • General stick insect info
    • Caring for stick insects
    • Species
      • Annam Stick Insect
      • Giant Leaf Insect (psg 72)
      • Giant Prickly Stick Insect
      • Jungle Nymph
      • Leaf Insect (psg 278)
      • Necroscia annulipes (psg 290)
      • New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect
      • Thorny Stick Insect Aretaon asperrimus
      • Vietnamese Stick Insect
      • Zompro’s Stick Insect
    • Breeding and egg care
    • Parthenogenesis
    • PSG Numbers
    • Stick insect FAQ
  • Butterfly & Moth
    • General butterfly & moth info
    • Care and housing
    • Species of butterflies and moths
      • Atlas Moth
      • Cabbage White butterfly
      • Cricula Silkmoth
      • Monarch Butterfly
      • Ricini Silkmoth
    • Breeding butterflies
    • Butterfly & Moth FAQ
    • Catching wild moths
  • Beetle
    • General beetle info
    • Beetle care and housing
    • Beetle species
      • Giant African Fruit Beetle
      • Sun Beetle
    • Breeding beetles
    • Beetle FAQ
  • Other bugs
    • Ants as pets
    • Millipedes
    • Cockroaches
    • Giant Snails
    • Giant Katydid
    • Hermit Crabs
    • Ventralla katydid
    • Grasshoppers
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Posted on June 30, 2013 by Linda

Keeping Insects is now also on Facebook. You can check out the pictures, add your own and chat with other insect enthusiasts! The link is:

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Mantis Species

  • Chinese Mantis
  • Indian Flower Mantis
  • Dead Leaf Mantis
  • Orchid Mantis
  • Arizona Unicorn Mantis
  • African Mantis
  • Gambian Spotted-Eye Mantis
  • Giant Asian Mantis
  • Sphodromantis baccettii
  • Spiny Flower Mantis
  • European Mantis
  • Thistle Mantis
  • Budwing Mantis
  • Ghost mantis
  • Egyptian Pygmy Mantis
  • Carolina mantis
  • Metallyticus splendidus
  • Devils Flower Mantis
  • Wandering Violin Mantis
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Stick Insect Species

  • Giant Prickly Stick Insect
  • Vietnamese Stick Insect
  • New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect
  • Jungle Nymph
  • Leaf Insect (psg 278)
  • Giant Leaf Insect (psg 72)
  • Annam Stick Insect
  • Thorny Stick Insect
  • Necroscia annulipes (psg 290)
  • Zompro’s Stick Insect
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Other Critter Species

  • Grasshoppers
  • Hermit Crabs
  • Cockroaches
  • Millipedes
  • Giant Katydid
  • Ventralla katydid
  • Giant Snails
  • Ants as pets
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