Click on a button to highlight the named body part. The goal was to show how science inquiry and the internet could be used effectively with young children. Students will utilize the Internet and media resources to explore species, habitats, food chains, and characteristics of spiders and scorpions. Join us in learning more about the fascinating world of butterflies. The Insect Zoo at Iowa State University is an outreach program developed to foster an appreciation of insects found in Iowa and throughout the world.
Visitors can view and interact with live insects and some of their relatives.
The diversity, ecology and behavior of the insects is emphasized. To investigate the science of insects. The Virtual Insectary not only provides images of some common insects, but includes information on the foods which they eat as well as the habitats where they can be found. There are well over 1 million different known species of insects in the world, and some experts estimate that there might be as many as 10 million. In fact one in every four animals on this planet is a beetle.