Invertebrates
Celebrating the small, yet mighty animals that make up the vast majority of life on Earth. From industrious ants to iridescent beetles, to archnids and myriapods, find them at the country’s first ever Insect Zoo and beyond.
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Red Harvester Ant
Red harvester ants are often mistaken for fire ants, but are not related to any fire ant species, native or introduced.
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Velvet Ant
Mutillidae are a family of more than 3,000 species of wasp whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers to their dense pile of hair which most often is bright scarlet or orange but may also be black, white, silver, or gold. Velvet ants are also known as cow…
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White-eyed Assassin Bug
These large assassin bugs are voracious predators that sneak up on their prey and use their piercing-sucking mouthparts to inject a variety of digestive enzymes. The bugs can work as a team to overpower prey that is often much larger than an individual assassin bug.
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