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These are very easy to care for as long as they have appropriately sized prey and aren't allowed to overheat. And their enclosure has to be kept moist at all times, of course. They do ok with minimal ventilation.

Not an assassin bug, but a coreid bug nymph. These are typically herbivorous.

The 'wasp' is a meloid beetle, probably Lytta sayi. The caterpillar is some sort of arctiid (tiger moth).

Wild strawberry leaves are a good idea... i should try those with my phasmids.

It's probably too late for that little guy now, but you could try bringing hostplant branches inside and forcing them with water so they sprout leaves. If any more hatch you could feed them that way.

There's no way you're going to get bitten by assassins unless you're really stupid around them. I know I am and I still haven't been bitten! I'll probably sell some soon.

One person claimed that the bite of Platymeris biguttatus (slightly smaller than but similar to P. horrida) is more painful than that of Scolopendra subspinipes. Everyone probably has different sensitivities though. I have a large colony of P. biguttatus and I have yet to be bitten despite...

If you can get commercial silkworm chow, that's probably better than homemade since it contains antimicrobial agents that prevent the food from spoiling before the insects can eat it. I'm curious how the pet store is keeping the E. tiaratum alive. Lettuce?

Another thing you could try is the artificial diet that people feed to silkworms and hornworms. It's a powder made mostly from wheat germ that you mix with water and boil, then it cools into a solid mass that could be cut into strips and hung in the enclosure for the phasmids to eat. 

If they're eating lettuce I assume this is some extremely polyphagous species such as Carausius morosus, in which case almost anything green and leafy will do. Stuff from outside is probably safer than any type of store- bought vegetables.

Too small for a full- sized web, but a few could still probably live in that amount of space comfortably. I have no idea how they behave in captivity when kept in groups. They might do fine really crowded, or they might eat eachother if they don't have a ton of space to build their own webs...

Around here Tetragnatha are very abundant in vegetation around marshes and other bodies of water. Not dangerous, sexes can be told apart in that males are skinnier with larger chelicerae and pedipalps. They're orbweavers, so they need an enclosure big enough for a large web. (They could...

Oh, it's still warm enough to find stick insects. They even survive frost.

look for something that has recognizable bark on it and compare it to living trees. Birch has really distinctive bark that's still intact long after the wood has rotted thoroughly.

No idea. I assume they'll eat bramble in captivity like most stick insects, but I don't know what sort of plants you'd be most likely to see them on in the wild.

Do you mean from the walkingsticks I caught (which I have every intention of doing, two of them are already mating) or searching for eggs in the wild? Because you might have a better chance of finding a grain of sugar in a sandbox than finding walkingstick eggs on the ground.  Worth noting that...

Coincidentally, I've captured seven D. femorata of various ages over the past three nights... I think I figured out a system for finding them. What you gotta do is go out at night with a bright flashlight and shine it on vegetation. They're almost impossible to see during the day, but at night...

Cape Cod Roaches and bugsincyberspace have em. I got a few back in February, and I've already got 40+ eggs and three nymphs from a single adult female.

Amblypygids or assassins wouldn't be too destructive in a planted tank. (A lot of other things will burrow, eat plants or smother everything with silk.)

They can more or less survive on leaf litter alone but carrots and other veggies are good too. You can also try feeding them any deceased feeders or other dead inverts, might help them be prepared for their clean up crew job.