I was most excited though when we came across the Love Bug exhibit. 'Why', you ask. Well the story goes a little like this... I call Vivian my Love Bug but that's not all, I realized long after I started calling her that, that her initials are VW. How perfect is that! So anyhow, despite Vivian's attempt to take a nap in the stroller, I had to get a picture of my VW Love Bug sitting in a VW Love Bug splatter with Love Bugs. The exhibit did teach me a few things about the bugs. The females fly through a swarm a males and attach themselves to one. Then she flies him around for about 12 hours while they mate. Unfortunately, Love Bugs are attracted to heat and the smell of car exhaust. This is why if you live in the South, you're car is most likely splatter with them during mating season (May and September).
Onto the Insect Food. You read that right. Insect Food. Not food made to look like insects, food made from insects. We had the pleasure of trying crickets today. We had Chocolate Chirp Cookies, Crispy Cajun Crickets and Cricket Party Dip. You really couldn't taste the crickets in the cookies and the dip. But just the crickets tasted like roasted sunflower seeds. Not bad. They also offer mealworms but they weren't available when we were there.
We topped the visit off with the Butterfly Exhibit. It was pretty decent. We've been to the really big one in Gainesville so it had a lot to measure up to. The butterflies were very friendly; landing on people and one landed on our camera. Thankfully Vivian woke up for this part and I think she really enjoyed it!
We
had a great time at the Insectarium. Luckily the Insectarium is part of
the Audubon Zoo and the Aquarium, so I think I'm going to get a family
pass for the three of them. :-)
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