But there are also exhibits you might call interactive. Faith Kuehn, the staff entomologist, will let you tickle a live Madagascar hissing roach, which shoots out air when danger is near. Or maybe you'll like the petting zoo, near the corner of Spider Street and Arachnid Alley, with scorpions and velvet ants and death-feigning beetles, which drop over somnolent to ward off attackers looking for live food. Birthday parties are popular at the Insectarium. The showstopper on the second floor is the life-size Roach Kitchen.
Kids love that, too.
Root, Root, Root Philadelphia once had a baseball team that won three straight pennants. Another time it won four out of five. Unfortunately, this was not the Phillies. Even more unfortunately, none of those pennants came after 1931. But for a time, the Philadelphia Athletics were the best baseball team in the American League.