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Article: Bugging out.(D)(Family Times)(Field Trips)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 22, 2001
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Byline: Alexandra Rockey Fleming
Holding an enormous lubber grasshopper, 3-plus inches of legs and feet and feelers and bug eyes, is enough to give many people the shivers. Not everyone - remember, most children love bugs. Even those who don't will be fascinated by a visit to the O. Orkin Insect Zoo at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, where they may be invited to touch some of the world's squiggliest specimens, from pupa to caterpillar to cockroach.
The insect zoo houses arthropods - 50 species at any given time - literally, a cast of thousands. Arthropods, as some may remember from biology class, are the largest ...