Thanks for the welcomes!
I love forums like this because they are a place where I can fit in with everyone and no one judges me for being weird.
I love my menagerie, as my parents call it, but being different (most fifteen year old girls won't even get close to a large insect, lizard, or frog, let alone breed roaches to feed them all) makes it hard to find people who understand my weird interests.
Cathy, I totally agree, mantids are amazing. My first mantis was a Chinese, and now I have species from all over the world (got orchid mantids yesterday!!)
You should try keeping them!
- MantisGirl13