MantisGirl13

I am in ninth grade, and I am homeschooled by my mom at home. I have two sisters and two brothers, and I am the oldest kid. I love math and science, and school is fun for me. 

I have loved mantids ever since the day when we were camping (we camp all summer in Maryland) and a little green thing scuttled across the dinner table. I caught it, and eventually figured out that it was a little Chinese mantis. I named her Flip, and I had her all summer until she died from a mismolt. That winter, I found out more about mantids, and I found out that there were actually exotic mantids. The next summer, I was just walking along a path, and I found this bush on the side of the road that housed a small colony of Tenodera sinensis. I caught and kept several of them over the summer, and I grew to love mantids even more. It was this fall when I finally bought my first exotic mantids from DeShawn. I have grown in my mantis love and knowledge, and I now consider myself to be an experienced mantis keeper.  

I am a saved Christian, and a large part of my life is my church and youth group. 

I love my life, friends, and mantids, and I could not have been happier when I found out that there was actually a whole forum dedicated to mantids! 

- MantisGirl13

My current collection:

Texas Unicorn Mantis [Phyllovates chlorophea] (1F)

African twig mantis [Popa spurca] (3.3.0) 

Ghost Mantis [P. paradoxa] (1.3.55+)

Violin Mantis [G. gongylodes] (4.3.0)

Green Anole [Anolis carolinensis] (2.1.0)

Crested Gecko [Rhacodactylus ciliatus] (1.0.0)

Eastern Gray Tree Frog [Hyla versicolor] (1.0.0)

My ever-growing want list: (if you have any of these species for sale or trade, please PM me)

Deroplatys dessicata