Victoria Bug Zoo

Submitted by Day Trips Canada on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 11:26
Photo Credit: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.sxc.hu/profile/CraigPJ">Craig Jewell</a>
Photo Credit: Craig Jewell

The Victoria Bug Zoo is located at 631 Courtney Street between Government Street and Douglas Street.  The Zoo is owned and operated by International Bug Zoos Incorporated.

The Bug Zoo is currently the largest tropical insect collection in North America and has Canada’s largest ant farm that contains leaf-cutter ants.  The Zoo offers visitors an opportunity to get up close and personal with Live giant walkingsticks, alien-eyed praying mantids, hairy tarantulas and glow-in-the-dark scorpions.  The Bug Zoo exhibits about 50 different species of insects, arachnids, and Myriapoda.

Visitors can tour around for themselves or walk around with a tour guide.  While with a tour guide visitors can hold and handle different varieties of species.  The tour guides will reveal the exotic secrets of this hidden kingdom.

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