RESTCLOUD Insect and Butterfly Habitat Cage Terrarium Pop-up 12 x 14 Tall

This cage is EXCEPTIONALLY well made and perfect for praying mantises, butterflies, stick insects, etc. The extra zippered access at the bottom is its best feature. You can clean the insects waste up or put food in without disturbing the insect. And unlike cheaper cages, this one does NOT have a hidden hole at the end of the zipper that you cannot see, but which you can put your finger right through. That hidden hole on competitors cages allows the feeder insects (fruit flies, houseflies, crickets & roaches) that I feed to my mantises to escape from the cheaper competitors cages. So dont even try to compare this to other cages on the market! None are as well made as this cage, which is why I keep ordering dozens of them. This cage never had a single escaped feeder insects like the cheaper cages I bought. I also like that the material at the bottom keeps moisture and debris from falling through onto the floor or the cage below. Cages with mesh bottoms cant do that. My ONLY complaint about this cage is personal: the really busy leaf pattern detracts from my enjoyment of watching my mantises and butterflies, and I like to watch my insects. It also makes it extremely hard to tell if there is mantis poop or diarrhea at the bottom or any leftover feeder insects that may be hiding amid the busy leaf pattern. The larger version of this cage that has the same features and is a much more pleasing plain green, but it is just too large (eats up too much space) for me to keep hundreds of mantises in my home, since each mantis requires its own cage. The cage washes up really well in regular laundry detergent and holds up well when housing even big mantises with big sharp claws, yet has soft enough sides that it wont damage delicate butterfly wings. On cheaper cages, the flexible metal framework has frequently broken through the fabric and made those cages unusable. That has never happened on a RESTCLOUD cage, and I have literally hundreds of mantises housed in various cages. This is the best cage on the market, and I dont typically write glowing reviews!

Great product! It is very easy to use and see through. I love the door near the bottom to clean easily and feed thru without disturbing the cocoons on top. I would recommend it.

I am happy with this product. It’s exactly as I expected based on the product description .

The kids loved it, they have already used it to hold a small snake a lizard and a large moth.

Fabulous

Perfect for caterpillars, easy access to clean and add milkweed for monarch or dill to feed swallow tails just don’t have different caterpillars in the same one

This is a great butterfly habitat net cage. It is better than the one that comes with the butterfly hatching kit. I especially like the zipper door at the bottom to add and remove food and clean it as needed without disturbing the caterpillars.

It was getting cold in Florida and I noticed 3 caterpillars on our milkweed. I cut the milkweed, added some fresh, and brought the caterpillars indoors in our new butterfly habitat. I released them in stages once out of cocoon. I only do this if temperatures are going to plummet as I have butterfly gardens in our yard. I like the habitat.

I raise hornworms and I put a handful of older ones in here and within 24 hours they were all dead!

I was easy to clean every day.