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Mirk

Mirk

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Hello, my name is Mac, I live in south central Montana about 30 miles west of Billings. When i was about 5 or 6 when my father brought home a large mantis and a cecropia moth he found at work, i have been hooked on large insects since. throughout my youth my family would order the ooths( t. sinensis) for pest removal in the gardens and i would go catch them and raise as many as i could in my room. As i got a little older i started breeding them and on occasion finding different native species from traveling around the country, or sent to me by friends met while traveling(family owns pretty cool buisness that sells motorized bikes, so we did alot of trade shows). After high school and moving out of the parents i stopped raising mantis almost completely.

Then found this site and few mantis breeders on the web and realized i miss my mantids, so i am getting enclosures all set up and am super excited to start raising some exotics.

 
Hi! Your story is nice! I remember raising a mantis when I was young but it died a week later.

Welcome :)

I am getting some Prometha moths and I already have some io moths

 
God Bless you! haha! welcome, glad to see your interest, u gonna have fun here! and we will both learn a lot.

ps I offer some free mantis and food for newbies who support the forum for I think it is 13.00, as long as you pay for shipping, I have to get my banner ready, unless sporeworld has one we can use. pm me for details and welcome again.

 
welcome! Been to Billings before and have family in Fargo and Williston ND :p

hibiscusmile said:
God Bless you! haha! welcome, glad to see your interest, u gonna have fun here! and we will both learn a lot.

ps I offer some free mantis and food for newbies who support the forum for I think it is 13.00, as long as you pay for shipping, I have to get my banner ready, unless sporeworld has one we can use. pm me for details and welcome again.
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...this is how i got started and it helps the forum stay up and running which will be the best source for anything related.
 
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oh wow. I have a friend that lives in Havre. about a 2 1/2 hours ride, north of Billings.

oh, and welcome to the forums.

Harry

 
Yar the fishing is great, I especially enjoy fishing the mountain lakes in the beartooth mtns..

Havre, even though i have family there, is one of the only areas of MT I haven't been to since i was a wee kid, I only remember it being very windy. Which i guess will happen being on the highline. Last summer and fall i was workin outside Williston building locations for the oil company. Man, that place is a zoo. It's a maybe 30,000 population city supporting over 200,000 people, I used to dread driving threw that town during the day.

And yeah i was terrible at keeping them forever, actually my first mantis, the one from the first post, I stuck into a tank with an unknown turtle(thought it was box turtle, but don't remember). I had handled them both together and the turtle never showed interest in eating him or crickets before him. I had a metal screened box for the mantis but it was hard to see through, and the turtle tank was by the head of my bed, and glass. So i figured mantis could live with turtle. And being a kid thought if anything the mantis would be the aggressor and the turtle being as big around as the mantis was long could hold is own. so i come back to find one brown wing segment, and it never dawned on me that the turtle could eat him. I spent hours looking for him thinking the mantis pushed the off the tank and lost a wing when it fell on his back. I don't think my parents ever told me the turtle ate him or maybe i never told them i lost the mantis, hard to remember. But yeah first of many mistakes.

Thanks ya'll for the welcome, and sorry in advance as I have a tendency to ramble on sometimes

and hibiscus i will try and pm you tomorrow, a wee bit late, and again thank you

 

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