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hehe an insect doesn't care where it is, it doesn't have the capacity, really. It's most comfortable in an environment where food is plenty and predators are few.
Unlike, say, a tiger--who is capable of knowing full well where it is, and feeling distress based on feelings of entrapment. An insect has no such emotional system :] they are very different creatures, and belong just fine where ever they can thrive (and under proper human care, do they ever thrive).
Unlike, say, a tiger--who is capable of knowing full well where it is, and feeling distress based on feelings of entrapment. An insect has no such emotional system :] they are very different creatures, and belong just fine where ever they can thrive (and under proper human care, do they ever thrive).
hehe I had a friend who had a moth lay eggs on her arm, though it wasn't at all invasive, really. She just brushed it off in the morning and we laughed about it XD
Mantis don't burrow their eggs, They lay oothecas on sticks, or other sturdy, immobile structures :D
But, I mean--I was raised in the outback. My bedroom was in a humid basement in a house located in swampland, and so I shared my bed with Dolomedes on a regular basis growing up. It wasn't unusual for me to wake up with one sitting on my face in the morning (for warmth, or because of the moisture from my breath, I'll never know)! It's probably best that I quickly learned to find them 'cute' rather than 'scary' hehe :]
I've had far too many run in with big creepy crawlies my entire life to let them upset me at all. They're fascinating, and usually just want to be left to their own devices! ...unless decide to feed them!
Mantis don't burrow their eggs, They lay oothecas on sticks, or other sturdy, immobile structures :D
But, I mean--I was raised in the outback. My bedroom was in a humid basement in a house located in swampland, and so I shared my bed with Dolomedes on a regular basis growing up. It wasn't unusual for me to wake up with one sitting on my face in the morning (for warmth, or because of the moisture from my breath, I'll never know)! It's probably best that I quickly learned to find them 'cute' rather than 'scary' hehe :]
I've had far too many run in with big creepy crawlies my entire life to let them upset me at all. They're fascinating, and usually just want to be left to their own devices! ...unless decide to feed them!
Oh well, that's horrible actually! I'd understand the horror behind that, really, but not all insects do that, haha. Not all crawlies are human meat-festering monsters x)
I do have something against flies though, because my cat was gone for a week and returned with maggots all under the skin of his tail... He had an injury and underwent a surgery involving the removal of his tail. It was super horrifying and I can't stand them very much. I admit of swatting them a lot, but even there I feel slightly bad, haha. Thankfully I can feed them to my bird after, so it's not a life gone to waste xD
I do have something against flies though, because my cat was gone for a week and returned with maggots all under the skin of his tail... He had an injury and underwent a surgery involving the removal of his tail. It was super horrifying and I can't stand them very much. I admit of swatting them a lot, but even there I feel slightly bad, haha. Thankfully I can feed them to my bird after, so it's not a life gone to waste xD
I'm horrified of spiders and even had a whole basked of them dumped over my head. My trauma is so bad that I can't enter the basement without my heart skipping a beat in horror, but I avoid killing them. I feel genuinely bad taking a life that didn't deserve being killed over me going "ew, how gross!"
My neighbour does the same to snakes and even deliberately chases them with her lawnmower and such things are just... incredibly upsetting and gross to me, because it's so terribly disrespectful towards another life. In any case, I just find boasting "KILL IT" kinda disgusting, no matter what creature. I suppose it was meant as a joke though... or so I hope.
My neighbour does the same to snakes and even deliberately chases them with her lawnmower and such things are just... incredibly upsetting and gross to me, because it's so terribly disrespectful towards another life. In any case, I just find boasting "KILL IT" kinda disgusting, no matter what creature. I suppose it was meant as a joke though... or so I hope.
PS. You're getting a little defensive? I was merely saying boasting killing something is disrespectful. It can upset people, because imagine someone going "man, cats gross me out, I'm so glad to shoot them whenever they cross my lawn". Some people really may love bugs. But in the long run you are perfectly entitled to whatever opinion you have. ;)
I'm just tired of people considering me a horrible person for my opinions.
Which is what i heard out of your responses.
I'm not mad that we don't agree, i'm mad that i'm ALWAYS the only one targeted.
I say something different than the group and then get targeted.
So, I'm done on this site.
Which is what i heard out of your responses.
I'm not mad that we don't agree, i'm mad that i'm ALWAYS the only one targeted.
I say something different than the group and then get targeted.
So, I'm done on this site.
well, admittedly, having someone exclaim "Kill it!" to my most beloved companion did kind of take me aback. It might not have been the best coversation starter, but I thought the following discourse was pretty innocuous :< Sorry if I hurt you, I will be more careful about how I respond in the future.
this one was wild caught during her 5th instar :D So by that time, she was large enough to tackle lesser house flies (Fannia canicularis). So that's what I fed her (as well as anything else which fit within that size range).
L1 nymphs will need fruit flies (except for very small species which will require spring tails). A voracious mantis will eat anything it can hook into! But voraciousness does depend on the species.
Living in thailand, it's impossible to buy feeder insects (there's no pet trade here to support that!) And so I had/have to give her wild caught food.
If you live in a developed nation though, you should be able to buy fly larvae in any fishing shop, or even in pet stores. I'd always advise against feeding crickets though, they're more trouble than it's worth.
L1 nymphs will need fruit flies (except for very small species which will require spring tails). A voracious mantis will eat anything it can hook into! But voraciousness does depend on the species.
Living in thailand, it's impossible to buy feeder insects (there's no pet trade here to support that!) And so I had/have to give her wild caught food.
If you live in a developed nation though, you should be able to buy fly larvae in any fishing shop, or even in pet stores. I'd always advise against feeding crickets though, they're more trouble than it's worth.
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