Janet Needham
Bakersfield, CA (USA)
Role(s):
Bakersfield's Bug Zoo
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Location:
Bakersfield
Industry:
Entertainment
Year Founded:
2007
Number Employees:
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Description:
Bakersfield’s Bug Zoo offers an interactive experience for visitors, where they can experience the sights, sounds, and smells of live creepy crawlies, including giant cockroaches, beetles, walking and prickly sticks, praying mantises, centipedes, scorpions, and tarantulas.
Garden spiders may not be your cup of tea, but seeing a goliath tarantula, which can grow to a foot in diameter, might captivate your inner child — or any child!
Bakersfield’s Bug Zoo is a microcosmic world of bugs — all busily crawling, buzzing, gnawing, and in general, doing what bugs do. From behind the safe barrier of a glassed enclosure, you can get within inches if you want.
Yes, a very small percent of insects are harmful to humans by spreading disease, infecting our homes, and eating our crops and stor