cat_named_noodles
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Hello folks, thought I'd introduce myself today. My name is Jen and I love all sorts of critters. I am a Microbiology student at Texas State University-San Marcos, but currently reside in Austin.
I am new to the hobby, sort of. smile.gif I have caught mantids when I was a kid, though a few years ago I found one in a furniture store in Hawaii and brought it home. I have always been fascinated by bugs and critters. I now have 4 C. pictipennis and 1 Mystery Mantid and I can't be happier with them. In the future I want to expand my collection to include Boxers, Ants, Taiwan Flowers, Gambian Spotted Eye Flowers, Orchids, Giant Shields, Peacocks, and more or less biggrin.gif I also keep Lygodactylus williamsi geckos (1.2 group plus 4+ eggs), 1.4 Leopard geckos, a dwarf rabbit, a juvenile sulcata tortoise, a pug, a mutt dog, and various butterfly larvae (mostly black and pipevine swallowtails, monarchs and gulf fritillaries) during the year. We also have a butterfly garden that serves as a certified wildlife habitat (we've seen leopard frogs, toads, anoles, skinks, Meditteranean geckos, fence lizards, millipedes, sowbugs, several species of bees and wasps, skippers, painted ladies, monarchs, queens, blues, hawkmoths, swallowtails, snails, hover flies, milkweed bugs, mantids, ants and so much more!!)
I have a 1 year old son that I hope will love bugs and critters and nature as much as I do when he gets older!
I am new to the hobby, sort of. smile.gif I have caught mantids when I was a kid, though a few years ago I found one in a furniture store in Hawaii and brought it home. I have always been fascinated by bugs and critters. I now have 4 C. pictipennis and 1 Mystery Mantid and I can't be happier with them. In the future I want to expand my collection to include Boxers, Ants, Taiwan Flowers, Gambian Spotted Eye Flowers, Orchids, Giant Shields, Peacocks, and more or less biggrin.gif I also keep Lygodactylus williamsi geckos (1.2 group plus 4+ eggs), 1.4 Leopard geckos, a dwarf rabbit, a juvenile sulcata tortoise, a pug, a mutt dog, and various butterfly larvae (mostly black and pipevine swallowtails, monarchs and gulf fritillaries) during the year. We also have a butterfly garden that serves as a certified wildlife habitat (we've seen leopard frogs, toads, anoles, skinks, Meditteranean geckos, fence lizards, millipedes, sowbugs, several species of bees and wasps, skippers, painted ladies, monarchs, queens, blues, hawkmoths, swallowtails, snails, hover flies, milkweed bugs, mantids, ants and so much more!!)
I have a 1 year old son that I hope will love bugs and critters and nature as much as I do when he gets older!
