as i have warned earlier, i might aswell tell you some encounters... i have a pet leopard gecko and i use to have a pet praying mantis(any of you wanted to know it, it was a chinese mantis, pretty big thing, not to mention cool :wink: ). i also have a great tub of black crickets to feed my leopard gecko.these guys grown kinda fast if your breeding them and the biggest one i had was the size of my lil finger :lol: also in britain there is the most coolest yet evilest beetle on earth! it hurts like hell! type this in a on google: devils coach horse. if ya dont know hat i mean type that word in plz! these guys are quite big(lil finger size sometimes!) and their jaws are sharp and evil, specailly if it crawls up your trouser as it has done to me and left a horrid looking gash in it. 8-) :lol: :x they even curl their specially designed tail up and squirt an evil smell. :-X heck i might aswell put a piccy on here: EDIT: good on ya to the peeps that have once owned or still have had a praying mantis, i miss mine, i wanna another :oops: :cry: :lol: infact! the bottom picture is kinda actual sized so squirm you people, squirm of fright!!!!mwahahahaha!