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  • My next pet will be a bug

    I'm looking at these now:



    It's an insect, disguised as a leaf.

    Unfortunately, it is illegal to import live insects into the US.

    Fortunately, the live eggs can be imported (I just adore a good legal loophole, don't you?). There is no chance that they will become an invasive species - they are tropical, and Michigan definitely isn't tropical.

    I'm also considering one of this variety:




    Aren't they just about the cutest things ever?????
    Last edited by B. de Corbin; 18 Jan 2018, 10:36.
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    Re: My next pet will be a bug

    here is no chance that they will become an invasive species

    OK,this then.
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      Re: My next pet will be a bug

      LOL - one of the virtues of not living in Florida.
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        Re: My next pet will be a bug

        Collin found a big leaf bug just a few weeks ago. I think it was a false katydid. Which is confusing because false katydids are actually a species of katydid that just makes a different noise than most katydid species...
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          Re: My next pet will be a bug

          I couldn't do a bug. Furry things only. Bugs freak me out. I'm frigging scared of bugs, mostly spiders. Not to say they're bad or anything, but I'm one of those people who can't handle bugs. Good luck!
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            Re: My next pet will be a bug

            Originally posted by anubisa View Post
            I couldn't do a bug. Furry things only. Bugs freak me out. I'm frigging scared of bugs, mostly spiders. Not to say they're bad or anything, but I'm one of those people who can't handle bugs. Good luck!
            I have a bee background, so bugs no longer bother me
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              Re: My next pet will be a bug

              Originally posted by thalassa View Post
              Collin found a big leaf bug just a few weeks ago. I think it was a false katydid. Which is confusing because false katydids are actually a species of katydid that just makes a different noise than most katydid species...
              I feel like this bug is my kindred spirit. I'm hoping it's pronounced katee-did.
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                Re: My next pet will be a bug

                Originally posted by volcaniclastic View Post
                I feel like this bug is my kindred spirit. I'm hoping it's pronounced katee-did.
                Yup - katydid. Everybody knows Katy did...

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                • #9
                  Re: My next pet will be a bug

                  Katydids are plentiful here in the summer. They are SO LOUD!!! I'm looking forward to the sound - that and the spring peepers (frogs).
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                    Re: My next pet will be a bug

                    See I think some people are in spirit with bugs and can communicate with them like others are with the furries. I don't think bugs are bad, I just can't look straight at them without feeling creeped out. I think the only bug I may like are butterflies. But even then I don't like looking at them up close. It's odd because as children we play with daddy long legs and fireflies and it don't bother us, but grow up and you have this intense fear of them suddenly. Good luck on your search!
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                      Re: My next pet will be a bug

                      My nephew keeps tarantulas as pets. I couldn't do that. He has said that as soon as one of them bites him it is over. I think that they are beautiful. My parents have tons of tarantula nests on their property, and it doesn't bother me at all- they are fascinating. But tending to one in a cage would be too much for me.

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                        Re: My next pet will be a bug

                        Originally posted by Prickly Pear View Post
                        My nephew keeps tarantulas as pets. I couldn't do that. He has said that as soon as one of them bites him it is over. I think that they are beautiful. My parents have tons of tarantula nests on their property, and it doesn't bother me at all- they are fascinating. But tending to one in a cage would be too much for me.
                        Count me out. This would be my worst nightmare. *shivers*
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                          Re: My next pet will be a bug

                          Originally posted by B. de Corbin View Post
                          I'm looking at these now:

                          It's an insect, disguised as a leaf.

                          ...

                          Aren't they just about the cutest things ever?????
                          Move to Australia... you can get all kinds of stick and leaf insects at the reptile and insect shows and also a lot of pet shops. They are popular as pets and petting zoo critters, and as classroom pets at schools and museums. Most people know of the stick insects (and they live wild in even non-tropical areas), but we have lots of different leaf insects too. Does the US not have native leaf insects and stick insects? I never really thought of these as a uniquely Australasian thing.

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                            Re: My next pet will be a bug

                            Originally posted by Rae'ya View Post
                            Move to Australia... you can get all kinds of stick and leaf insects at the reptile and insect shows and also a lot of pet shops. They are popular as pets and petting zoo critters, and as classroom pets at schools and museums. Most people know of the stick insects (and they live wild in even non-tropical areas), but we have lots of different leaf insects too. Does the US not have native leaf insects and stick insects? I never really thought of these as a uniquely Australasian thing.
                            LOL - I know. Every time I find a seller on the internet, the seller is in Australia.

                            Yes, there are stick insects native to the US, but they tend to be only a couple inches long. Leaf mimics, aside from Katydids, I don't think so...

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                            Originally posted by Rae'ya View Post
                            Move to Australia... you can get all kinds of stick and leaf insects at the reptile and insect shows and also a lot of pet shops. They are popular as pets and petting zoo critters, and as classroom pets at schools and museums. Most people know of the stick insects (and they live wild in even non-tropical areas), but we have lots of different leaf insects too. Does the US not have native leaf insects and stick insects? I never really thought of these as a uniquely Australasian thing.
                            LOL - I know. Every time I find a seller on the internet, the seller is in Australia.

                            Yes, there are stick insects native to the US, but they tend to be only a couple inches long. Leaf mimics, aside from Katydids, I don't think so...
                            Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.

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                              Re: My next pet will be a bug

                              Originally posted by Rae'ya View Post
                              Move to Australia... you can get all kinds of stick and leaf insects at the reptile and insect shows and also a lot of pet shops. They are popular as pets and petting zoo critters, and as classroom pets at schools and museums. Most people know of the stick insects (and they live wild in even non-tropical areas), but we have lots of different leaf insects too. Does the US not have native leaf insects and stick insects? I never really thought of these as a uniquely Australasian thing.
                              Yeah, the place that has spiders that can lay eggs under your skin.

                              I'll get right on moving there. :P
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