Is it legal to keep pet insects? - GTA Aquaria Forum - Aquarium Fish & Plants serving the Greater Toronto Area.

Sam Zhang · 06-06-2020, 12:15 AM

I am looking to keep some pet mantises, and or moth and butterflies. I don't see anyone selling mantises on this side of the border, are they banned here?

characinfan · 06-06-2020, 09:40 AM

I don't know about all mantises, but it's definitely legal to sell some of them because I've seen them sold for pest control purposes at garden centres in the past.

Here's a list of exotic pets banned in Toronto -- no insects are on the list.

Here's a government list of pest species that it's illegal to keep -- no mantises are on the list.

sLAsh · 06-06-2020, 11:52 AM

You can buy native mantis egg cases from home depot and Costco.
https://www.homedepot.ca/product/pra...ase/1000700318

06-06-2020, 12:15 AM	#1
Sam Zhang Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: Toronto Posts: 7 Feedback Score: (0)	Is it legal to keep pet insects? I am looking to keep some pet mantises, and or moth and butterflies. I don't see anyone selling mantises on this side of the border, are they banned here?

06-06-2020, 09:40 AM	#2
characinfan Eats plants too Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Danforth Posts: 1,292 Feedback Score: (8)	I don't know about all mantises, but it's definitely legal to sell some of them because I've seen them sold for pest control purposes at garden centres in the past. Here's a list of exotic pets banned in Toronto -- no insects are on the list. Here's a government list of pest species that it's illegal to keep -- no mantises are on the list. __________________ 48 gallon: 1 Megalechis thoracata (hoplo), 1 Ctenopoma acutirostris (African leaf fish/leopard bush fish), 2 Pantodon buchholzi (freshwater butterfly fish) Last edited by characinfan; 06-06-2020 at 09:43 AM..

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06-06-2020, 11:52 AM	#3
sLAsh Up-and-comer Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: ontario Posts: 52 Feedback Score: (6)	You can buy native mantis egg cases from home depot and Costco. https://www.homedepot.ca/product/pra...ase/1000700318