A couple who live with thousands of pet insects and let them roam freely has told of how the creepy crawlies escape their home '24/7' - and how they 'kill the mood' when they enter the bedroom.
“We’ve got one that lives on the desk called Dolly and she’s been there for around nine months. They’ll eat anything that moves to be honest with you, including you if you stick your fingers in too close and they’re in a mood. We’ve lost a lot of blood to mantises – trust me.” “You can’t help it, it just snowballs and we ended up buying every book and then we started breeding them.”
“They won’t run away,” he said. “They will go into threat pose as if to say ‘don’t come near me mate because I’m going to knock you out’.” Asked whether bugs have managed to escape, Simon said it happens “24 hours a day”.