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# Keeping Insects

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

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://keepinginsects.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [I've taken up the hobby again](https://keepinginsects.com/2022/07/ghost-mantis/)
- [Mantis ID in South Africa](https://keepinginsects.com/2019/11/mantis-id-in-south-africa/)
- [A beauty in Croatia](https://keepinginsects.com/2019/09/a-beauty-in-croatia/)
- [A nice video about bees - what would happen if all the bees died?](https://keepinginsects.com/2019/01/a-nice-video-about-bees/)
- [Jungle Nymph](https://www.keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/jungle-nymph/)
- [Dead Leaf Mantis](https://www.keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/dead-leaf-mantis/)
- [Orchid Mantis](https://www.keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/orchid-mantis/)
- [Amazing video of young Orchid Mantis nymphs](https://keepinginsects.com/2018/03/amazing-video-of-young-orchid-mantis-nymphs/)
- [From egg to bee in 60 seconds](https://keepinginsects.com/2017/06/from-egg-to-bee-in-60-seconds/)
- [Hercules beetle lifecycle](https://keepinginsects.com/2017/05/hercules-beetle-lifecycle/)
- [How to get the lichen color morph of the Giant Prickly Stick Insect Extatosoma tiaratum](https://keepinginsects.com/2017/02/how-to-get-the-lichen-color-morph-of-the-giant-prickly-stick-insect-extatosoma-tiaratum/)
- [How to find leaves for your stick insects in winter](https://keepinginsects.com/2017/02/how-to-find-leaves-for-your-stick-insects-in-winter/)
- [Readers question: My stick insect stopped eating after molting](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/11/readers-question-my-stick-insect-stopped-eating-after-molting/)
- [Ghost mantis development in pictures](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/11/ghost-mantis-development-in-pictures/)
- [New photo: Jungle Nymph](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/10/new-photo-jungle-nymph/)
- [Some beautiful submitted insects photographs](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/09/some-beautiful-submitted-insects-photographs/)
- [Mantis identification in Louisville, Kentucky](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/08/mantis-identification-in-louisville-kentucky/)
- [Meet Zompro’s Stick Insect](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/07/meet-zompros-stick-insect/)
- [New species description](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/06/new-species-description/)
- [The mantis that looks like a dried leaf](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/05/the-mantis-that-looks-like-a-dried-leaf/)
- [Pretty in Pink - Meet the Orchid Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/01/pretty-in-pink-meet-the-orchid-mantis/)
- [Tiny 3D glasses for mantis experiment](https://keepinginsects.com/2016/01/tiny-3d-glasses-for-mantis-experiment/)
- [How do stick insects defend themselves?](https://keepinginsects.com/2015/11/how-do-stick-insects-defend-themselves/)
- [It's time to visit the Monarch Butterfly](https://keepinginsects.com/2015/10/its-time-to-visit-the-monarch-butterfly/)
- [Taking care of a wild praying mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/2015/08/taking-care-of-a-wild-praying-mantis/)
- [Top 5 mantis species for beginners](https://keepinginsects.com/2015/06/top-5-mantis-species-for-beginners/)
- [Still there are new mantis species being discovered](https://keepinginsects.com/2015/06/still-new-mantis-species-being-discovered/)
- [Indian Flower Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/11/indian-flower-mantis/)
- [Is it a wasp? Is it a mantis? No, it's...](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/11/is-it-a-wasp-is-it-a-mantis-no-its/)
- [Meet the Wandering Violin](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/10/meet-the-wandering-violin/)
- [New mantis species added to this website](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/10/new-mantis-species-added-to-this-website/)
- [Does a praying mantis bite?](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/09/does-a-praying-mantis-bite/)
- [Nice horns, honey](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/09/nice-horns-honey/)
- [Popa spurca mantis pictures](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/08/popa-spurca-mantis-pictures/)
- [Meet the Case Moth](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/02/meet-the-case-moth/)
- [Cuidandobichos.com Spanish website launched!](https://keepinginsects.com/2014/02/cuidandobichos-com-website-launched/)
- [Readers Question: mantis eye color](https://keepinginsects.com/2013/10/readers-question-mantis-eye-color/)
- [Empusa sp. male - Italy](https://keepinginsects.com/2013/10/empusa-sp-male-italy/)
- [Hickory horned devil](https://keepinginsects.com/2013/09/hickory-horned-devil/) - The Hickory horned devil is a caterpillar that will pupate into a regal moth. It's the biggest caterpillar in North America and has a green blue body and big orange spikes.
- [Video of mantis nymphs hatching](https://keepinginsects.com/2013/07/video-of-mantis-nymphs-hatching/)
- [New Facebook page](https://keepinginsects.com/2013/06/new-facebook-page/)
- [Mantis introductionary video (funny)](https://keepinginsects.com/2013/06/mantis-introductionary-video-funny/)
- [It's spring in the Northern Hemisphere!](https://keepinginsects.com/2013/05/its-spring-in-the-northern-hemisphere/)
- [Ants as pets](https://keepinginsects.com/2012/12/ants-as-pets/)
- [New pictures added](https://keepinginsects.com/2012/10/new-pictures-added/)
- [Atlas Moth caresheet added](https://keepinginsects.com/2012/06/atlas-moth-caresheet-added/)
- [Reader's question: What is THIS?](https://keepinginsects.com/2012/01/readers-question-what-is-this-2/)
- [Happy holidays!](https://keepinginsects.com/2011/12/happy-holidays/)
- [Readers Question: What is THIS?](https://keepinginsects.com/2011/06/readers-question-what-is-this/)
- [Monster of the Month](https://keepinginsects.com/2011/05/monster-of-the-month/)
- [Official opening of this website!](https://keepinginsects.com/2011/04/official-opening-of-this-website/)
- [Welcome to KeepingInsects.com](https://keepinginsects.com/2011/02/welcome-to-keepinginsects-com/)

## Pages

- [Mantis FAQ](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/faq/) - Here you can find the answers to all question about keeping praying mantises. How old they become, if they are dangerous, where you can find them and much more.
- [Ventralla katydid](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/ventralla-katydid/)
- [Giant Katydid](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/giant-katydid/) - You can keep katydids as pets. The Giant Katydid Stilpnochlora couloniana is a beautiful leaf-like katydid from Cuba. Read here about feeding, housing and breeding!
- [Headlice](https://keepinginsects.com/headlice/)
- [Ghost mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/phyllocrania-paradoxa/) - The Ghost Mantis, Phyllocrania paradoxa, is a beautifully camouflaged mantis species that is relatively easy to care for. Read all about keeping one as a pet here.
- [Caring for a mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/care/) - For a pet mantis your need proper housing, food, temperature and humidity. On this page you can read all you need to know about keeping a pet praying mantis.
- [Praying mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/) - A praying mantis is an insect species with long front legs that are designed for clasping prey. Mantids can be kept as pets when they are properly taken care for.
- [Food plants](https://keepinginsects.com/general-care/plant-food/) - Here you find a list with pictures of the food plants that are suitable for stick insects. You can recognize plants in your area so you can feed your stick insects.
- [Live insects as food](https://keepinginsects.com/general-care/live-food/) - Here is a list of all feeder insects your can feed to your pet mantis, pet spider, predatory bugs and other insect-eating critters. You can buy these in shops.
- [Where to buy?](https://keepinginsects.com/where-to-buy/) - You can buy pet insects in many places: online or in a shop, or from a private person. Here you find a list where you can buy them and where you should watch out for.
- [6 Astonishing Mantis Facts](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/6-astonishing-mantis-facts/)
- [Hatching mantis eggs](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/caring-for-mantis-eggs/)
- [Mating and breeding](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/breeding/) - Here you can read all about breeding praying mantises. How to know if you have a male and a female, how to make sure the male is not eaten by the female and more!
- [Devils Flower Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/devils-flower-mantis/)
- [Hermit Crabs](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/hermit-crabs/) - Land hermit crabs make excellent pets when properly taken care of. This page will tell you all about housing, feeding and caring for your hermit pet.
- [Enclosure and Housing](https://keepinginsects.com/general-care/enclosure/) - If you want to keep insects as pets, you need to provide them with a good enclosure or terrarium. Praying mantids, butterflies, beetles and stick insects all need their own kind of housing.
- [Spiny Flower Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/spiny-flower-mantis/) - Here you can read how to keep a Spiny Flower Mantis, Pseudocreobotra wahlbergii, as a pet. In this caresheet you can read about housing, food and humidity etc.
- [Leaf Insect (psg 278)](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/leaf-insect-psg-278/) - The leaf insect, or Phyllium sp. phillipines is a stick insect that looks like a leaf. Its psg number is psg 278. You can read all about its care, food, humidity and temperature here.
- [Introduction](https://keepinginsects.com/introduction/) - Insects are interesting and fun pets to keep in your home! You can keep butterflies, praying mantis, stick insects and beetles! This website has all information!
- [Zompro's Stick Insect](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/zompros-stick-insect/)
- [Necroscia annulipes (psg 290)](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/necroscia-annulipes-psg-290/)
- [Thorny Stick Insect Aretaon asperrimus](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/thorny-stick-insect-aretaon-asperrimus/)
- [Monarch Butterfly](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/species/monarch-butterfly/) - The black and orange Monarch butterfly is famous for its long migration from US and Canada to Mexico.
- [Breeding fruit flies](https://keepinginsects.com/general-care/breeding-fruit-flies/) - Instead of buying fruit flies to feed to your praying mantis or spider, you can breed your own flightless fruit flies using this easy DIY at home method.
- [Wandering Violin Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/wandering-violin-mantis/) - The Wandering Violin Mantis is a cool looking praying mantis species. It has a long slender midsection of its body, while the rest is camouflaged as dried leaves.
- [Annam Stick Insect](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/annam-stick-insect/) - The Annam Stick Insect is a nice stick insect to keep as a pet. At this page you can read all about this bug and how to keep it as your pet.
- [Carolina mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/carolina-mantis/) - The Carolina mantis is a common praying mantis in most states of the United States. In fall the adults can be found in gardens or nature areas. Read all about keeping one!
- [Chinese Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/chinese-mantis/) - The Chinese Mantis is a common mantis in the United States. When adult it is big and brown with a green stripe on the side of the wings. Read more about this mantis here.
- [Cabbage White butterfly](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/species/small-white-butterfly/)
- [Metallyticus splendidus](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/metallyticus-splendidus/)
- [Catching wild moths](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/catching-wild-moths/)
- [Parthenogenesis](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/parthenogenesis/) - Stick insects can produce offspring without ever mating with a male. The females of these species of stick insect just lay eggs that develop into daughters.
- [Grasshoppers](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/grasshoppers/) - Grasshoppers are easy insects to keep and breed. Locusts are kept as pets or as feeder insects to feed to reptiles. Read all about breeding grasshoppers here.
- [Egyptian Pygmy Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/egyptian-pygmy-mantis-miomantis/)
- [Ants as pets](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/ants-as-pets/) - Ants are amazing and fun insects to keep as pets. Here you can read all about them, about how to get your own ant nest and formicarium and how to feed them.
- [Advertising](https://keepinginsects.com/contact/advertising/)
- [Giant Leaf Insect (psg 72)](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/giant-leaf-insect-psg-72/) - The Giant Leaf Insect is a beautiful insect shaped like a leaf. It can be kept as a pet and it is very fascinating to see it move, eat and grow. Here you can read all about its care.
- [Atlas Moth](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/species/atlas-moth/) - The atlas moth is a beautiful big moth that has amazing caterpillar colors as well. Attacus atlas is very big Saturniidae moth and can be easily kept as a pet.
- [Millipedes](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/millipedes/) - Millipedes can be kept as pets, there are many beautiful large species. They live on the ground and can be fed with fruit, mushrooms and dead leaves.
- [Insect photo gallery](https://keepinginsects.com/introduction/photo-gallery/) - Here you will find a photo gallery of many insect species like mantids, moths, stick insects, beetles and other insect pets. Some have amazing colors and shapes
- [PSG Numbers](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/psg-numbers/) - A PSG number is a number that is given to a species of stick insect. The number is often easier to remember than the Latin name. Here you will find the list.
- [European Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/european-mantis/) - The European Mantis is the most common mantis in Europe and North America. Here you can read all about keeping one as a pet and even breeding them.
- [Thistle Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/thistle-mantis/) - The Thistle Mantis is a beautiful mantis species from the desert. Here you can read all about feeding it with flies, housing, temperature and keeping it as pet.
- [Budwing Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/budwing-mantis/) - Parasphendale affinis or Parasphendale argrionina are two species of mantis commonly called Budwing Mantis. Here you can read all about having one as a pet.
- [Cricula Silkmoth](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/species/cricula-silkmoth/) - Here you will find all information regarding keeping and breeding Cricula trifenestrata moths or Cricula silkmoths. There are also many pictures.
- [Giant Snails](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/giant-snails/) - Giant African Snails are enormous snails that occur in Africa. They can be kept as pets and are fun and easy to keep. They eat vegetables and fruit.
- [Ricini Silkmoth](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/species/eri-silkmoth/) - This caresheet will provide you with all the information you need to keep and breed Ricini Silkmoths, Samia cynthia ricini, as pets. Food, housing, temperature etc.
- [Vietnamese Stick Insect](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/vietnamese-stick-insect/) - The Vietnamese Stick Insect or Ramulus artemis is a long and slender stick insect that is usually green. Here you can read about how to keep one as a pet.
- [Cockroaches](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/cockroaches/) - There are many species of cockroach that you can keep as a pet. They are not dirty or smelly but quite fascinating and fun to keep!
- [Giant African Fruit Beetle](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/species/giant-african-fruit-beetle/) - The Giant African Fruit Beetle is a beautifull shiny green beetle from Africa. Chelorrhina polyphemus has yellow stripes and spots on its back.
- [Beetle FAQ](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/faq/) - Here you find answers to all sorts of questions regarding keeping beetles as pets. How to raise grubs, if they are suitable for children and how to keep them.
- [Sun Beetle](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/species/sun-beetle/) - The sun beetle Pachnoda marginata peregrina is one of the easiest species of beetle to keep as a pet. They are a beautiful yellow color. This is the caresheet.
- [Breeding beetles](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/breeding/) - It is fun and easy to breed pet beetles. You can raise eggs into larvae that will in turn pupate into beetles. You can learn here all about breeding beetles.
- [Beetle species](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/species/) - This list of beetle species will give you an idea about the looks of the species and about how to keep them as a pet. All information for the insect enthusiast!
- [Beetle care and housing](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/care/) - Beetles and their larvae make excellent pets. Here you can read all about how to keep them, e.g. housing, feeding, breeding and maintaining temperature and more.
- [General beetle info](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/general/) - Beetles are insects that develop from egg to larvae to adult beetles. There are many species in different colors and sizes and they can be kept as pets.
- [Jungle Nymph](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/jungle-nymph/) - The jungle nymph is a very large stick insect from Malaysia. Here you can read all about its food, housing, incubation of the eggs and taking care of them!
- [New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/new-guinea-spiny-stick-insect/) - The New Guinea Spiny Stick Insect or Eurycantha calcarata can be kept as a pet. Here you can read all about proper humidity, temperature, food and housing.
- [Giant Prickly Stick Insect](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/giant-prickly-stick-insect/) - The Giant Prickly Stick Insect, or Extatosoma tiaratum, is a beautiful big stick insect from Australia. Read all about its care, required temperature and eggs here.
- [Indian Flower Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/indian-flower-mantis/) - Here you can read all about taking care of an Indian Flower Mantis as a pet. Housing, feeding, keeping is at the best environmental conditions is all described.
- [Dead Leaf Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/dead-leaf-mantis/) - Here you can read all about keeping a Dead Leaf Mantis, Deroplatys desiccata, as a pet. Housing, feeding, temperature and much more accompanied by pictures.
- [Orchid Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/orchid-mantis/) - The Orchid Mantis is one of the most famous praying mantis species. It is pink and white in color. Here you can see pictures and learn how to keep one as a pet.
- [Male or female mantis?](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/distinguishing-males-and-females/) - Here you can read all about distinguishing male and female praying mantises. You can count the segments on the abdomen of a nymph or can look at the adult mantis.
- [Arizona Unicorn Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/unicorn-mantis/) - Here you find the caresheet of the Arizona Unicorn Mantis, Pseudovates arizonae. You can read here how to house it, feed it and allow it to breed.
- [Gambian Spotted-Eye Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/gambian-spotted-eye-mantis/) - Pseudoharpax virescens, or Gambian Spotted Eye Flower Mantis is a small species of mantis from Gambia. Here you can read all about caring for one as a pet.
- [African Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/african-mantis/) - Here you can read all about how to take care of a pet African Mantis (or said in Latin Sphodromantis lineola). Food, housing, temperature, humidity and care.
- [Sphodromantis baccettii](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/sphodromantis-baccettii/) - Sphodromantis baccettii is a relatively unknown species of mantis that can be kept as a pet. It is similar to S. lineola. Here you can read all about this species.
- [Giant Asian Mantis](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/giant-asian-mantis/) - The Giant Asian Mantis is one of the most easy mantis pets to keep. Here you can read all about housing, feeding, breeding and keeping this mantis species healthy.
- [Butterfly & Moth FAQ](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/faq/) - The most frequently asked questions about butterflies, caterpillars and moths are answered on this page. If they are dangerous, if they are suitable for children and more.
- [Breeding butterflies](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/breeding/) - This page shows you how to breed butterflies and moths and how to raise caterpillars to butterflies. How to recognize males and females and how to treat eggs.
- [Species of butterflies and moths](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/species/) - Here you will find a list of the butterfly species you can keep as a pet. Every species has its own caresheet with all the information about keeping them as pet.
- [Care and housing](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/care/) - Here you can read all about keeping caterpillars and butterflies or moths as pets. You will learn about housing, feeding, breeding and the correct temperature.
- [General butterfly & moth info](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/general/) - Butterflies are nice pets that can be raised from caterpillars. Here you can learn all about their senses, their development and what they eat.
- [Stick insect FAQ](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/faq/) - Here you can find the answers to all questions regarding stick insects. About how old they will become, about safety, legality, molting and care.
- [Breeding and egg care](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/breeding/) - Most stick insects are easy to rear and breed. Here you can read about breeding stick insects, incubation of the eggs and getting a male and a female.
- [Caring for stick insects](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/care/) - Here you will find the basics of taking care of a pet stick insect. You will learn about housing, feeding, maintaining the correct temperature and humidity!
- [Species](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/species/) - Here you will find a list of caresheets of all common species of stick insects that you can keep as a pet. There you will find all the information for keeping.
- [General stick insect info](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/general/) - Here you can read all about the life cycle of stick insects, their behavior, their senses and what they look like. You can keep these fun bugs as pets!
- [About the author](https://keepinginsects.com/contact/about-me/) - Information about the owner of keepinginsects.com
- [Links](https://keepinginsects.com/contact/links/) - Here you will find all kinds of links to websites about keeping insects or insects in general.
- [Legality of owning insects](https://keepinginsects.com/introduction/legality/) - In some U.S. states or countries it is illegal to keep foreign animals including insects. You cannot import or house non-endemic insects in those countries.
- [History of bug keeping](https://keepinginsects.com/introduction/history/) - Insects have been kept as pets or as production animals for hundreds of years. Butterflies are kept for their silk, crickets for their sounds and battles etc.
- [Why keep bugs?](https://keepinginsects.com/introduction/why-keep-bugs/) - People wonder why you should keep insects as pets, what's the fun of that? Well it is a lot of fun because of their fascinating colors, shapes and sometimes scariness!
- [Mantis species](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/species/) - Here you find the species description and caresheet for all mantis species of KeepingInsects.com You can read about all the requirements for keeping a pet mantis.
- [General mantis info](https://keepinginsects.com/praying-mantis/general/) - A praying mantis is an usually large predatory insect with large eyes, a turnable head and powerful front legs to hold its prey with. They can be kept as pets.
- [Humidity and drinking water](https://keepinginsects.com/general-care/humidity/) - Insects need proper air humidity to shed their skin and to survive. Here you can read all about maintaining and measuring this humidity to take care of your pet bug.
- [The right temperature](https://keepinginsects.com/general-care/temperature/) - Here you can read how to maintain proper temperature for your tropical pet insect like a praying mantis. You can heat the terrarium with light bulbs or heating mat.
- [Contact](https://keepinginsects.com/contact/) - This is the contact form you can use to contact KeepingInsects.com We are located in the Netherlands.
- [General care](https://keepinginsects.com/general-care/) - Here you can read how to take care of pet insects. What kind of housing they need, what they eat, how to maintain temperature and humidity and much more.
- [Other bugs](https://keepinginsects.com/cockroaches-locusts-ants/) - You can also keep cockroaches, katydids, locusts, snails, scorpions, spiders and millipedes as pets! Here you find a description of these animals and how to keep them.
- [Beetle](https://keepinginsects.com/beetle/) - Beetles are their larvae are fun pets to raise and keep. Here you can read all about taking care of beetles and their larvae, e.g. feeding, housing and breeding.
- [Butterfly & Moth](https://keepinginsects.com/butterfly/) - You can keep butterflies and caterpillars as pets if you take proper care of them. Here you can read all about housing, feeding and the different species you can keep.
- [Stick insect](https://keepinginsects.com/stick-insect/) - Stick insects are excellent pets for both children and adults. There are many species you can keep in your home. Here you can read all about taking care of them.

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