Some insects can easily be kept as pets.
List of insects that can be kept as pets.
- stick insects
- carausius morosus is the commonest.
- cockroaches, preferably of species that will not become a pest in the house if one of them escapes, (for they always will at some point).
- Blaberus craniifer, the death's head roach, and
- Blaberus fusca, smaller giant cave roach.
- Gromphadorina portentosa the giant madagascan hissing cockroach.
- Rose beetles
- Eudicella smithi
- Pachnoda marginata, the Congo Rose Beetle
- springtails
- crickets
- praying mantises
- carabid beetles
- ants
- whirligig beetles