What's the weirdest invert you kept or have?

[A cave cricket]

Mine is a colony of lubber grasshoppers, they're all nymph's, and I got about 100. What's yours?

 

[viper69]

Not weird but rare to find

Pseudoscorpion

Crawled on my desk- way cool!!

 

[A cave cricket]

I've actually kept a couple of pseudoscorpions.

 

[DomGom TheFather]

I was pretty into dermestid beetles for a while.

 

[NMTs]

Don't know how common they are because I haven't had one since way before I got into the "hobby", but I used to keep a solfugid/sunspider every now and then. The ones that are as big as your thumb and are lightening fast with huge fangs require some caution when keeping!

 

[chanda]

I've tried keeping solifugids - with limited success. They just don't seem to do well in captivity.

I did keep a tarantula hawk once. (In the summer, when I was teaching classes about bugs and spiders, I'd usually try to bring one in to show the kids - them let it go again. This poor girl had badly damaged wings when I found her and couldn't fly, so I kept her for the remainder of her natural life.)

 

[me and my Ts]

I have a small ant colony and I kept velvet ants at one point

 

[chanda]

I have a small ant colony and I kept velvet ants at one point

Velvet ants are great! I love keeping those!

 

[Nicole C G]

Grain mite colony

 

[SamanthaMarikian]

My late scolopendra spinosissma named Arnold who was apparently a girl and gravid when i got her

 

[SkittlesTheJumpingSpider]

A very rare species of plastic spider - pretty sure it's venomous... although it's missing it's pedipalps and fangs... a perfect species for beginner's, though, since it doesn't eat anything. Or move at all, for that matter.

 

[Jonathan6303]

Mine is a colony of lubber grasshoppers, they're all nymph's, and I got about 100. What's yours?

I had a very interesting experience with those

 

[Edan bandoot]

symphylans

 

[A cave cricket]

Teach me how to keep those.

 

[NMTs]

Oh, of course I have the worms - always forget about the worms... Not so much a pet, but they require about the same amount of care as a T (weekly feeding and watering, steady temp, etc.). Excellent trout bait and box turtle food, extremely prolific reproduction rate!

 

[The Snark]

 

[A cave cricket]

What the bug Is that?

 

[Edan bandoot]

What the bug Is that?

some sort of phasmid

 

[A cave cricket]

Boom Google lensed it. It's a two stripes walking stick but with wings‽‽‽

The the male is underneath the female.

I've actually kept two stripes walking sticks for about a year. Fun fact it's spray's poison in your eyes.

 

[paumotu]

The strangest critters in my collection would have to be my velvet worms… so utterly distinct from every other group of invertebrate life I’ve kept so far.