Indeed, recent years have seen a veritable hatching of insect exhibits across North America. With names like the San Francisco Zoo's Insect Zoo and the Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory, these living bug collections celebrate the insect world through hands-on exhibits that make kids squirm with delight and exotic walk-through gardens that can please a parent. For more information about other cool bug collections, visit one of the following links: California, Colorado, Florida, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
If your kids go buggy over insects, they'll love these educational tools:
With the BUILD YOUR OWN BUGS book and rubber stamp kit (Andrews McMeel), kids can stamp out real bug species or make up new ones using parts from various bugs.
On the CD-ROM (Workman/Swfte), kids can go on a bug hunt and build a bug collection.
In the and BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS volumes of Barron's Books' THE FASCINATING WORLD OF... series, kids can look up facts and cool illustrations of their favorite insects.
Writer Troy Corley lives in Reseda, California.
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