There are more kinds of beetles in Michigan than there are varieties of birds on earth.
Insects range in size from moths as large as bats to springtails smaller than grains of sand.
Their life spans can last a week to over twenty years. They live in pools of petroleum and in the brine of the Great Salt Lake. They survive the heat of Death Valley and the cold of the Antarctic coast. They are the stars of the Bug House. During 1996, the Department of Entomology focused on the creation of a facility specifically designed for kindergarten through 6th grade to introduce children to the fascinating world of insects.