grasshoppers. Me and my brother would collect them and put 'em in a jar. It is the only insect that doesn't scare him. He loves em.

grasshoppers! and fireflies

Fireflies. What fun. Now I hardly ever see any.

praying mantis. those things are REALLY smart! my dad used to keep them on his hanging plant in his office.

lighting bugs!!! but glows!!!

Armadillidium vulgare AKA pill bugs, sow bugs, rolly pollies

Cabbage whites

Fireflies during the summer nights. I put ants, ladybugs, potato bugs, grasshoppers, moths, dragon flies and possibly other insects in a jar. I was a wicked child. I do regret having lifted rocks with the sole intent of a salting slugs just to hear them sizzle.

Lightning bugs. We used to poke holes in the lid and put grass and maybe a little water in the jar. We'd let them out in the morning.

Fireflies and MOSQUITOS... Are you surprised.?

fireflies and spiders...and whatever I caught to feed the spiders. haha

Just the normal stuff: Lightning Bugs and caterpillars.

Just about every insect we could find. We did some nasty experiments with water and magnifying glasses.

Grasshoppers, crickets, roly polies

Lightening Bugs (Fire flies).

lighting bugs, butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets. Basically anything that would let me get my hands on it.

Grasshoppers are horrible, they make me shiver worse than almost anything. Its the jump, and the heavy landing. i used to catch bees and wasps in jars and bottles, loads of them in the same one it was freaky when some got out. one time a huge bee, bigger than ever was in a neighbours garden, i saw it but i told my friend to get it. and he messed it up and it got away.

Lightning bugs, crickets, grasshoppers, caterpillars and spiders.

Fire Flies

lightning bugs (with the green light at their tails) those are the only insects that i am not scared of today. i can touch them with no problem. anything else, big problem.

butterflies, ladybugs, caterpillars

Lightning bugs!

My friend Ralph spent 4 days in my large jar.

Worms, caterpillars-if I could find them-, and preying mantis-however you spell that-.

Pretty much anything. My brothers and I would find all kinds of weird, random bugs around the family farm and we would put them in a jar. We used to have a pet tarantula that my grandparents caught but she died. She's still fully preserved exactly how she died like 10 years ago. Sick, eh? Lol.

Lightening bugs, but we would let them go after a little while.

Anything... In a jar or straight in my pocket. I barely remember it, but one time I remember pulling a frog I caught out of my pocket to show mom. "Lookie what I got"

Ants. Big ass ants. One day the container roke in my mom's car, but I didn't tell her.

we caught frogs and kept them in coffee cans just for a few hours

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Caterpillars. I put them in a salad bowl with a strainer on top. There was some moist dirt, branches and leaves. I looked in books to see which leaves the specific caterpillars I had liked, but more often than not, they didn't eat them, probably because the leaves were picked. But most of them made cocoons and turned into butterflies, and this is what I enjoyed. I didn't want to let the butterflies go because they were too pretty, but I let them loose anyway. However...I have witnessed the darker side of nature this way...many times, the caterpillars I had caught had been visited by parasitic wasps or other insects, which lay their eggs on the caterpillar and leave. So, sometimes I had these nasty wasps come out of the cocoon instead, black and red wasps with elongated abdomens. Once it was these tiny little fly things, it was sick. And the worse...I made a Siamese butterfly. Two caterpillars made their cocoon right next to each other, so it was like one big cocoon, and when the butterfly came out, it was two butterflies stuck together. It was all fat and misshaped, with a bunch of legs, like three antennas and about five wings. It couldn't fly very well, and I killed it. :( Maybe I shoulda brought it over to NASA or something. :/ After that occurrence though, I gave up on doing these experiments. :/

There were many firefly catching "parties" in summer. They made great "lamps" for a while. I was a softy and always let mine go soon after. I also had my own little aquarium in which I kept minnows, tadpoles and baby turtles perodically.

When we went to my Home state OK, where grandparents lived it was always lighten bugs in a jar just before dark and then we could bring them in for alittle while in our room, then when we went to sleep, grandpa came and took jar and let them go....lol Now here in CA it was a bug I called rolly polly bug, not sure of its real name all I know is as soon as you touched it thats what it did, roll up in a ball and then if you left it alone it soon came back and crawled off, we were entertained for hours by them.

Those giant ants and anything I found under a rock. I used to keep myself preoccupied for hours on end doing that.

Butterflies. And of course they died, and I felt very shocked and guilty of it. So I never did that again. I couldn't literally hurt a fly, I remember that I captured those in a jar and releasing them outside the house, to prevent my mother from killing them.

I used to put snails in a plastic container and poke holes at the top of the lid with leaves inside and sprinkles of water every now and then. I think after a few days i let them go and then collected new ones.