insects as pets

Explores how to keep tarantulas, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and other insects and spiders as pets.

Presents information about some different types of insects that make interesting pets.

Describes how to make a home for an insect as a pet, covering keeping an ant farm, praying mantis, centipede, and more.

Shows how to catch and keep crickets, mantises, click beetles, and many more kinds of insects. Also gives you a close-up view of how insects interact with one another and with their environment.

Provides a practical guide to creating and maintaining a terrarium or vivarium for reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates; covering equipment, controlling the environment, furnishings, plants, food and feeding, breeding, health, and more.

Describes insects, spiders, and other non-mammals most commonly owned as pets, and offers advice on their care, feeding, and breeding.

Presents a guide to keeping insects as pets, covering topics such as selection of species, legal issues, appropriate housing, temperature, decorations, health issues, feeding, water, mixed-species terrariums, spiders, beetles, and long-legged bugs, and possible dangers.

Describes the acquisition, care, and housing of various insects that may be kept as pets.

A guide to the selection, care, nutrition, health, breeding, and behavior of tarantulas and other arachnids, featuring sixty-nine color photographs and a special discussion on understanding tarantulas.

Explains how to catch, house, feed, and observe a wide variety of insects. Includes suggestions for collecting and preserving them when they die.