what got you interested in keeping mantis?

someone might have already made a thread about this already but im gonna make another one. what got you guys interested in keeping mantis? i was thinking about it just now and what got me into the hobby was when i went to my local exotics shop to see what stick insects they had and they had orchid mantis nymphs in stock (i dont recommend orchid mantis to beginners), i brought one and named him wisp and he outlived his life span, he died a few months ago, rip wisp

I bought an ooth from a home improvement store and hatched it out. I did it for my garden pests (I've been corrected since then and no longer release Chinese mantids). When I released them one crawled on my hand and wouldn't climb off... So I decided to keep it. That led to my obsession and I hope it never ends. I've kept over 36 different species since.