I was born into a middle-class family in 1996. I have always lived in the same town, and always went to the same school, though I did move one time, and it was a whopping distance of 5 miles that I moved!!! Yay! Since a week after I was born, I loved and was always around insects. From praying mantises to spiders to beetles to roaches,(I ate one when I was 4) I was always around at least one of them. From kindergarten to my current status in 7th grade, I was always bringing live insects and my dried insect collections. I remember one time in 5th grade when I brought a Caterpillar hunter (Calosoma Scrutator) to school in a specimen jar and it got loose in the classroom and we were all freaking out that it was going to bite someone.(No one saw it yet and I said that it was 11 inches long and has jaws that can bend titanium. :D) Currently I am breeding Madagascan hissing cockroaches, giant African millipedes, and trying to get some domino roaches to breed. I have over 500 dried specimens of insects such as atlas moths, Macrodontia Cervicornis, and luna moths. At our small 5-acre property in basically the middle of the forest, I found at least 400 of these specimens, and the other 100 I bought on eBay or a private collector. My mom likes to scream at me for picking bugs off the ground barehanded.I am also currently working on I book, titled Bug's World. I have a long ways to go on it, but when it is finished, it will be awesome. Right now it has about 4,000 words and 30 articles. Right now I am sorta the class clown. Picking on my teachrs are sorta how I stay awake in class. When I grow up and move out of my parent's house, I am planning to move to the remote forest in Indonesia where the Queen Alexandra's Birdwing resides as and entomologist and dedicate half of my house to breeding insects.



At a drive through restaurant window:
Mom: Can I get an iced coffee please?
Employee: We don’t have iced coffee.
Mom: Do you have Ice?
Employee: Yes.
Mom: Do you have coffee?
Employee: Yes.
Mom: Ta-daaaaaa!!!

My favorite two orders of insects are probably Coleoptera (Lucanidae and Dynastidae) and Lepidoptera (saturniidae and papilionidae). I became more interested in Blattodea after I got my first 4 Madagascar Hissing cockroaches and I love them to death. :D

I got an egg sac from my jumping spider a few months ago, I have a gravid southern devil scorpion, and I have eggs from my crested gecko in the incubator!!!

Insects, arachnids, and myriapods, music, the planet (call me a hippie, you get fi dollah), and photography. I am interested in studying the paranormal, I like cryptozoology. I love watching shows on that kind of stuff. I also like reptiles and amphibians, since I grew up surrounded by lizards-literally! I am interested in the way stag beetles fight over females, just watching them.

6.0.1 Crested Gecko
2.1 Leopard gecko
1.0.2 Green Anoles (rescues)
TONS.LOTS.EEK.HOLY EFF Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches

More on the way


DEAD AND DRIED~

Notable:

Titanus Giganteus 110 mm
Rajah Brooke's Birdwing 140 mm
Cyclommatus Metallifer
Chalcosoma Atlas
Allotopus Rosenbergi
Lamprima Adolphinae
Dorcus Alcides 73 mm
Dorcus Titanus 67 mm
Chiasognathus granti 78 mm
Macrodontia Cervicornis 100mm
IO moth m/f (Caught my me) 66mm/7 8 mm
4 Different kinds of Orchid bees (Thank you Al!)
Elephant stag beetle (F) (Caught by me)



A whole bunch more

RECENT PASSINGS-
June 11, 2010-Emperor scorpion, Gloria-Fungus infection from my stupidity :(
August 28, 2009-Chinese mantis, Thomas-Unknown cause
July 19th 2009-Chinese mantises x2, Punkin and Dave- suffocation from fruit fly maggots. I am not sure how this happened, I put a banana in there so that it would attract fruit flies for them to eat, and I guess they didn;'t eat enough and maggot population overgrew.
May 21st 2009-Giant African millipede, Terri-Unknown cause
June 11th 2009-Giant African millipede, Steve-Unknown cause

Hissers, Crested geckos, leopard geckos

Sinodendron rugosum
Saturniids
Any bug that is green.
Scorpions
Stag beetles
Titanus Giganteus
Macrodontia Cervicornis/Castroi/Dejeani
Dynastes Hercules/Granti
Cotinis mutabilis
Chrysina gloriosa/beyeri
Cicindela dorsalis media

Dead specimens from my area.

I am the only one in my school that breeds, owns, or collects insects. I am in the gifted & talented program in the school, and I am currently 1st chair trombone in band. I am also good at catching frogs. :D

Maybe once I get babies out of my halloween crested gecko line.

CSI, Fringe, Deadliest Warrior, UFC, Whale Wars, Tosh.0, South Park, Family Guy, and Happy Tree Friends for the movies and Seether, Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Korn, Gorillaz (just for the music videos, check them out), Breaking Benjamin, Hinder, Godsmack, Nirvana, Rob Zombie...any metal/classic rock I'll listen to.

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In memory of Steven Robert Irwin, the Crocodile hunter

~The crocodiles are crying~









http://cricket.biol.sc.edu/usc-roach-cam.html

Roach Cam! Keeps a live feed of an enclosure full of Madagascan hissing cockroaches! Keep reloading it to see the roach's activities.

Check out KenTheBugGuy.com for some awesome critters!

http://www.japanesebugfights.com/

Make this horrible "sport" stop!



"Sail forth - steer for the deep waters only, Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee and thou with me, For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go. And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all."


The wanton slaughter of ocean wildlife can be stopped with your help. Sea Shepherd has the experience, the skills, the courage, and the determination to bring an end to illegal whaling along with other illegal oceanic activities. With your support, we can keep their ships at sea to defend the defenseless dolphins, fish, seals, whales, and all ocean wildlife!

100 million sharks are killed each year-by longlines, by "sport" fishermen, or by a barbaric practice known as shark finning. Hooked sharks are hauled onto boats; their fins are sliced off while they are still alive. These helpless animals are then tossed back into the ocean where, unable to swim without their fins, they sink towards the bottom and die an agonizing death.

Stop the Senseless Slaughter of Dolphins in Japan!

"It is a bloodbath, cruel and barbaric. Each year, the idyllic and peaceful setting of the village of Taiji in southern Japan is shattered by almost unspeakable cruelty as incredible pain and ultimate death is inflicted on defenseless dolphins."

- Paul Watson, president and founder
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society





Humans kill 100 million sharks a year
...and for what?

* shark fins for a tasteless bowl of soup
* shark teeth for jewelry
* shark jaws for tourist souvenirs
* shark skin for leather wallets/belts
* shark cartilage capsules and powders for phony medicinal cures
* shark liver oil for cosmetics/skin care products

These creatures of the sea need YOUR help to survive in the wild. Donate to the Sea Shepherds to make that dream come true!!!





The Japanese whaling fleet, invading Australian waters, bringing soldiers to a demilitarized zone, killing whales in a whale sanctuary, during a global ban on commercial whaling, is calling Sea Shepherd terrorists. Who’s right?


Killing Pilot whales is Faeroes yearly "tradition" . They chase the pilot whales in a large group to the shore,where men and woman await them with sharp knives and start to slit their throats.The meat is distributed to all villagers.This has to stop for 2 reasons,the Pilot whales have the right to live,the killing is brutal,painfull and unnessasary,the whale meat is contaminated with high levels of mercury ect.


The Faeroe Islanders slaughter long- and short-finned pilot whales in the Faeroe Islands in the country's annual, brutal whale "drives."



Between 2,000 and 3,500 pilot whales are corralled by men in boats and forced into bays in this North Sea Danish Protectorate. The animals are trapped in the shallow waters. The islanders gaff the marine mammals with spears and slaughter them by severing the whales' spines with long knives. The whales are stoned, speared, stabbed, slashed, and clubbed by people in a festive atmosphere. This slaughter is particularly gruesome since the killing is conducted as a community sporting event with young children often participating in the killing of the visibly and audibly terrified whales.

The hunt is done because of tradition and the absurd belief by the Faeroese that God gave the whales to the people to be slaughtered.



Danish Faeroe Islands
This group of 18 islands, of which 17 are inhabited, is located in the North Atlantic about 200 miles (322 km) northwest of the Shetland Islands. They were settled by the Vikings, the ancestors of the modern-day Faroese, in the 8th century. The Faroese language is derived from Old Norse. The islands joined Denmark in 1386 and have been part of the Danish kingdom ever since. The Danish Home Rule Act of 1948 recognizes the Faeroe Islands as a self-governing community within the United Kingdom of Denmark with its own flag and Faeroese as its main language. The 2005 population estimate is 46,962.



Sea Shepherd - Actions Defending the Whales of the Faeroe Islands

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has been the leading opposition against the slaughter of pilot whales in the Danish Faeroe Islands. Captain Paul Watson has led campaigns to oppose the hunt in 1985 and 1986 and again in 2000. No whales were killed while Sea Shepherd patrolled the Islands. Sea Shepherd was also successful in convincing 20,000 stores in two grocery chains in Germany to boycott Faeroese fish products. Sea Shepherd's efforts against the Faeroese whalers is documented in the BBC documentary “Black Harvest.”











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