Aside from keeping bugs I've been involved in music production and visual art since I was a kid. I've been signed to a small label, had tracks featured on compilation CDs, and played out live. I've had my paintings and digital works shown in local galleries. I'm currently working toward production of short films and hope to get work scoring soundtracks. You can bet mantids will make appearances in future works!

I've always had an interest in insects. Kept Madagascar hissing cockroaches for about 10 years. Kept a few solifugae (sun spiders) over the years and enjoyed them quite a bit. Had a vinegaroon, rose haired tarantula, and various wild caught insects.

I have a Tanzanian tailless whipscorpions which is a little too shy for my taste, and a colony of Blaptica Dubia roaches I initially bought as feeders but I'm finding not very useful for feeding whipscorpions or mantids.

I just got into mantids in May 2010, these are the species I keep:
Violins (Gongylus gongylodes)
Ghosts (Phyllocrania paradoxa)
Gambian Spotted-Eye Flower Mantids (Pseudoharpax Virescens)
Heterochaeta occidentalis
Idolomantis diabolica
American Stick Mantis (Brunneria borealis)
Cryptic Mantis (Sibylla pretiosa)
Mega Mantis (Plistospilota guineensis)
Unicorn Mantis (Phyllovates chlorophaea)
Budwing Mantis (Parasphendale sp.)

I've really enjoyed the mantids more than any other insect pet. Very rewarding to watch them grow, and not nearly as difficult to keep as I had imagined. I love how aware they are for such tiny little beings. I'm hooked.

I'm also experimenting with phasmids, which are very cool!

I'm currently breeding several species of mantids.

Selling nymphs and ooths:
Gambian Spotted-Eye Flower Mantids
Ghosts (Phyllocrania paradoxa)

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Videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/precarious333

Music here:
http://www.indabamusic.com/people/twitchcraft


Art in albums here:
http://www.myspace.com/precarious333

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Some of my pets...





Mega Mantis


Idolomantis diabolica



Gambian Spotted-Eye Flower Mantis


American Stick Mantis


Heterochaeta occidentalis


Gongylus gongylodes


Tanzanian tailless whipscorpion