Insect Museum and Live Insect Zoo

Beetle Display at Insect Museum

Papua New Guinea Insect Display at Insect Museum

Richard and Giant Lime-Green Walking Stick at Insect Zoo

Giant Lime-Green Walking Stick Closeup

The Insect Museum at the University of California, Davis, is a fun place to visit.  The Bohart Museum of Entomology has the 7th largest insect collection in North America.  On display are cases of colorful insects along with a description of criminal cases solved with “Insect Forensic Evidence”.  Visitors especially enjoy the live Insect Zoo featuring giant millipedes, hissing cockroaches, scorpians, a rose-haired tarantula, and a giant lime-green walking stick from the Lesser Antilles.

UPDATE 2014:  There is a fascinating article in Bay Nature about fire-chasing beetles.  At football games in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1940s when multitudes of fans lit up cigarettes in the stadiums, the beetles came from far and wide to descend on the fans!  Read about these amazing beetles here:  https://baynature.org/article/fire-chasing-beetles-make-appearance/