Hello,
I am asked to introduce myself, and here I am, male 38 years old :blink:
After I get a new volenteer job at a small zoo, one of the headkeepers told me allot about his pasion for insekts.
Always been very interested in animals in general but never kept insekts, I first tryed walking leafs and stick, they are beautyful but not very exiting
to keep or breed.
So I looked further for a differend and interesting insekt, I liked the big coloured beetles very much, and was thinking to stard that up as a hobby, but
ontime I talked with a other person who kept mantids, and that was a bullseye :lol:
I learned allot (and still am) talking with Pim also from the Netherlands and a member here he gave me the link to this place.
Its a interesting forum very nice, so many people from differend countries are here, like reading there stories about Mantids and see the beautyful pictures from amazing species
I now have 8 species most of them juvenile and I like to take care for them and watch there very interesting behaviour.
Also like building there encloseurs
Here a example of the first one I made but still improving.
Furter more I keep Terrapene or the American box turtle's for more then 20 years and I am also European studbookkeeper from the differend species.
www.studbooks.org
I have cats (breed Tonkinees)
a dog (Breed Jack-russel
Chickens (breed Serama)
and Ferrets
This is the list from matids I have;
Deroplatys lobata
Miamantis paykulli
Phyllocrania paradoxa
Hestiasula brunneriana
Idolomorpha lateralis
Gongylus gongylodes
Creobroter gemmatus
Hierodula membranacea
And I like to add 2 more species to care for and learn about there behavoir never bought oots before so I like buing this 2 species as a ooth
to learn from the experience to hatch them.
Hymenopus coronatus
Popa spurca
Both very differend species (I think compeared with the ones I have)
I don't think I will post often becaus I still have to learn allot, but think I will be here regular to read your stories and watch the great picture's
trying to learn as much as possible from tour experiance with keeping mantids.
Regards
Hans
I am asked to introduce myself, and here I am, male 38 years old :blink:
After I get a new volenteer job at a small zoo, one of the headkeepers told me allot about his pasion for insekts.
Always been very interested in animals in general but never kept insekts, I first tryed walking leafs and stick, they are beautyful but not very exiting
to keep or breed.
So I looked further for a differend and interesting insekt, I liked the big coloured beetles very much, and was thinking to stard that up as a hobby, but
ontime I talked with a other person who kept mantids, and that was a bullseye :lol:
I learned allot (and still am) talking with Pim also from the Netherlands and a member here he gave me the link to this place.
Its a interesting forum very nice, so many people from differend countries are here, like reading there stories about Mantids and see the beautyful pictures from amazing species
I now have 8 species most of them juvenile and I like to take care for them and watch there very interesting behaviour.
Also like building there encloseurs
Here a example of the first one I made but still improving.
Furter more I keep Terrapene or the American box turtle's for more then 20 years and I am also European studbookkeeper from the differend species.
www.studbooks.org
I have cats (breed Tonkinees)
a dog (Breed Jack-russel
Chickens (breed Serama)
and Ferrets
This is the list from matids I have;
Deroplatys lobata
Miamantis paykulli
Phyllocrania paradoxa
Hestiasula brunneriana
Idolomorpha lateralis
Gongylus gongylodes
Creobroter gemmatus
Hierodula membranacea
And I like to add 2 more species to care for and learn about there behavoir never bought oots before so I like buing this 2 species as a ooth
to learn from the experience to hatch them.
Hymenopus coronatus
Popa spurca
Both very differend species (I think compeared with the ones I have)
I don't think I will post often becaus I still have to learn allot, but think I will be here regular to read your stories and watch the great picture's
trying to learn as much as possible from tour experiance with keeping mantids.
Regards
Hans
