Many people across the world have found, and still are finding that insect make wonderful pets, not only are they small and unobtrusive, but generally they are quieter, cheaper to feed, and less likely to maul young children than the average cuddly mammal.
They are almost universally attractive to children and supply a much needed intellectual stimulus to many adults.
What more could you ask for????
There are a number competant amateur societies around the world who welcome beginners and and have at their fingertips far more information than I can reasonably supply here.
| The Bug Club is a generalist, aimed primarily at the young at heart. |
| The Phasmid Studies Group deals mostly with Stick-Insects |
| The Blattodea Culture Group for people who like Cockroaches. |
| The Mantid Study Group for people who like Praying Mantids. |
| Arachnology Mailing lists This page will lead you to a number of them. |
| The American Tarantula Society For Tarantula Keepers in the USA |
| For European Arachnological Societies For Tarantula Keepers in Europe |
| The Arachnology Page Loads of Links |
| The Myriapod Group for people who keep Millipedes and Centipedes. |
| Caring for Stick-Insects | Culture notes for Cockroaches |
| Breeding Crickets | Raising and breeding Praying Mantids |
| Keeping Giant Millepedes | Keeping Tarantulas |
| Keeping Scorpions | Breeding Magasoma acteon |
| Breeding Ground Beetles | Raising Woodlice |
| Keeping Collembola (Sprintails) | |
| Raising British Butterflies 1 Small Tortoiseshell, Comma, Red Admiral, Painted Lady | |
| Raising British Butterflies 2 Wall, Speckled Wood, Ringlet | |
| Raising British Butterflies 3 Large, Small and Green-veined Whites and The Orange Tip | |
| The Pet Arthropod Page |
| The rearing of Dynastes granti |
| Dorcus curvidens binodulosus |
| Dorcus curvidens binodulus A Different Site |
| Emperor Scorpions |
| MillipedeThe Provincial Museum of Alberta Natural History Invertebrate Zoology Fact Sheet - |
| Scolopendra: The Pede Page |
| An introduction to Japan's beetle culture |
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| These pages are here free for you to use, I would like to keep them that way, however making and running this site, and the other sites I am currently making or have made, on Birds, Mammals, Insects and Fish and Bacteria as well as all the other invertebrates costs money. There are several simple ways you can help. The first is by using the search engine here, that way you make me 2 or 3 cents a time, not a lot but it adds up.
Or you could buy a copy of my recently published book of poetry. It is called Poetry for All the Family, which describes it perfectly. Although I do publish poetry in the specialised poetry magazines the poetry in this book is specifically designed to be enjoyed by people of every age. Follow the link for more information. It is not expensive and should be thoroughly enjoyable, so if you like it please tell people about it, or better still give it to someone as a present for Christmas of a birthday. |
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