Iowa State Insect Zoo

A traveling education program helping to teach people about our wonderful arthropods! 🦋🐛🐝🐜🐞🦂🕷🦗🦟

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Friends!!!

What has the Insect Zoo done for you, your child, grandchild, cousin, aunt, anyone?

Since 1997 we have been spreading the Bug Love all over Iowa!

Today we kick off the Bug Love Campaign to help raise funds for the Insect Zoo. https://t.co/IpBIkjaQDN

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Pro-Tip! Make a Striped-Tailed Scorpion’s enclosure a little more ~cozy~ with a painted portrait

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This is Dr. Michelle Samuel-Foo, who got her PhD in entomology from the University of Georgia in 2008, with an emphasis on insects in agriculture. Dr. Samuel-Foo has been recently named the new president of Southeastern branch of the Entomological Society of America!

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One of our baby Vietnamese walking sticks enjoying a healthy dinner of bramble

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Live with Honeypot Ants, Walking Sticks, and why not? Grasshoppers!https://t.co/HVlucAuDIZ

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Up close and personal with our Honey Pot Ant colony!

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Too bad @TyHaliburton22 isn’t a Vietnamese Walking stick, who are capable of regenerating their injured arms and regrowing them! Wishing him a speedy recovery ❤️💛

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One of our Australian walking sticks made a heart for you guys for Valentine’s Day! #happyvalentinesday #insectzoo #iowastateuniversity @IowaStateU

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Bugtastic times at Eagle Days in Keokuk! #insectzoo @IowaStateU #baldeagledays

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Bug Girls’ night out! #insectzoo #bowling #buggirls

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Day 1 of Bald Eagle Days in Keokuk was a success! We are here tomorrow from 10-5pm and 10-4pm on Sunday! Hope to see some of you here! #insectzoo #buglife #iowastateuniversity

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Prince Charming, one of our Asian Forest Scorpions, would love to wish you all a #HappyNewYear! 🦂 #insectzoo #2020

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Our Chilean Rose Hairs, Clementine and Budd, would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas!!! 🎄🎁 #christmas #insectzoo #iowastateuniversity

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Two incredibly fun programs in one day! One with the Knoxville High School Science Club and the other with the Girl Scout Troop 1196! #maggotart #iowastate

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Thanks @ReimanGardensIA for inviting us last night! It’s such an awesome place to teach people about our incredible arthropods! 🦂🕷🦋🐛🐝🐜🐞🦗🦟#iowastateuniversity #insectzoo #reimangardens

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Insect film Festival @ReimanGardensIA

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Budd wants to wish you all a Happy Halloween! 🎃🕷#halloween #rosehairtarantula #iowastateuniversity

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Thank you Salisbury House and Gardens for having us! We had so much fun and loved seeing everyone’s amazing costumes! #insects #iowastateuniversity #halloween

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Our Jungle Nymph walkingstick from Malaysia is not happy today!
I call this walkingstick yoga! The downward stick pose. #dontsmashthatbug

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It’s a girl! This beautiful Chilean Rose Hair (rosea) tarantula just molted last night and we finally got to know if we should truly keep the name Clementine! #tarantula #molting #itsagirl #iowastateuniversity