See here for some alchemy info/spoilers:

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/things-i-ate-skyrim

...and nobody cares. Boo hoo.

When I first read that you can CATCH BUGS... that made my day! Hell, I spend every waking minute of my life thinking about bugs and how awesome they are when I'm not thinking about Skyrim and how awesome it will be.

I raise praying mantises and I have lots of other bugs too. I got grasshoppers, Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches, and a cricket!

They wiggle their antennae and do cute bug things!

I wonder if Skyrim will have praying mantises... if not, might have to mod them in.

On an unrelated but not quite completely unrelated note, I was bothered by the mantises in Fallout: New Vegas since the nymphs still had fully developed wings. In reality praying mantis nymphs don't have wings, just wing buds that steadily grow with each molt all the way up until they are sub-advlt. During their molt to advlt, these wing buds basically appear and fold out from a very compressed shape to form the advlt wings.

lol wut?

Wait...you RAISE praying mantises? Whatever for?

omg who didn't do that when they where a kid, that owned!

and you get 2 of them together and they start fighting

Or, you could try being Renfield from Dracula:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfield