 Below are listed the names and locations of zoos that specifically have live insect displays and/or relevant education programs and materials.
General Resources
- ARAZPA Links page
- This page offers hypertext links to zoos, aquaria, and conservation resources worldwide.
- Wildlife Web Zoo Links page
- Links and descriptions of zoos in the United States; also contains other zoo-related resources.
Northeast
- Bronx Zoo
2300 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10460
Tel: (800) 937-5131
- Butterfly Zone opens for a third season as visitors are invited to come face-to-face with nearly 1,000 spectacular butterflies. A tranquil butterfly garden invites visitors to plant their own butterfly gardens to attract these winged wonders at home. The Zoo also offers school and enrichment programs for grades K-12.
Support Offered
- Educational materials
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Live insect exhibits
- Franklin Park Zoo
One Franklin Park Road
Boston, MA 02121
Tel: (617) 442-2002
- Along with a number of exhibits and displays, the grounds contain a large children's petting zoo and a rain forest pavilion.
Support Offered:
- Information about biodiversity
Mid-Atlantic
- The Insectarium
8046 Franklin Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19136
Tel: (215) 338-3000
- A diverse collection of 1,500 different creepy crawlers--both living and preserved.
Support Offered:
- Live insect exhibits
- Specimen collections open to the public
- Philadelphia Zoo
3400 West Gerard Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104-1196
Tel: (215) 243-1100
E-mail:education@phillyzoo.inter.net
- The Zoo undertakes education, research, and conservation. The Zoo's Education Department offers a comprehensive mix of programming through its Education, Treehouse, and Children's Zoo departments and Volunteer Docent Council. Schools may schedule classroom visits for a more interactive experience.
Support Offered:
- Information about biodiversity
- Information about local endangered species
- Educational materials
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Family activities
Southeast
- Butterfly World - Tradewinds Park
3600 West Sample Road
Coconut Creek, FL 33073
Tel: (954) 977-4400
- This is a small visitors' center with a diverse collection of live butterflies on display.
Support Offered:
- Cecil B. Day Butterfly Center and Callaway Gardens
Callaway Gardens
Box 2000
Pine Mountain, GA 31822-2000
Tel: 1-800-CALLAWAY
E-mail: info@callawaygardens.com
- The largest glass-enclosed tropical butterfly conservatory in North America. Guests are able to enter this tropical paradise and walk among plants and butterflies native to countries in Central and South America, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Africa. The Center houses educational displays as well as an orientation theater. Sourrounding the Day Butterfly Center are one and one half acres of wildlife gardens designed to attract native butterflies and birds.
Support Offered:
- Live insect exhibits
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Field-based activities/excursions
South
- Audubon Zoological Gardens
6500 Magazine Street
New Orleans, LA 70118
Tel: (505) 861-2537
- The Audubon Living Science Museum is a 30,000-square-foot facility targeted for completion before the start of the new millennium--the first phase of which is being devoted to the world of insects. The Audubon Museum will showcase as many insects as possible . . . from the rare and exotic to their more common kin at home in the backyards of Louisiana. A special emphasis is placed on the impact that insects have had on the history and development of New Orleans.
- Birmingham Zoo
2630 Cahaba Road
Birmingham, AL 35223
Tel: (205) 879-0458
Support Offered:
- Live insect exhibits
- Information about local endangered species
- Information about biodiversity
- Newsletter or journal
- Memphis Zoo
2000 Galloway Street
Memphis, TN 38112
Tel: (901) 275-3400
E-mail: info@memphiszoo.org
- The Zoo has a number of unique displays, including Better Than Gold: Plants and Animals of the New World, an interactive exhibit portraying the richness and economic value of native plants and animals. It also has a Discovery Center, which classes can reserve. The Center puts on show and tells, presented by education staff using bio-facts and interactive activities.
Support Offered:
- Information about biodiversity
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Educational materials
- Newsletter or journal
Don Harrington Discovery Center
1200 Streit Drive
Amarillo, TX 79106
Tel: (806) 355-9547
The Discovery Center offers hands-on experience through static and visiting exhibits, planetarium shows, special events, educational/outreach programs, and children's science workshops.
Support Offered:
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Educational materials
Fort Worth Zoo
1989 Colonial Parkway
Fort Worth, TX 76110
Tel: (817) 871-7050
The Fort Worth Zoo is houses more than 5,000 native and exotic animals. At many of the natural habitat exhibits, visitors are separated from the animals only by a river or a waterfall and are often face-to-face with the animals through large viewing windows! The education program is limited.
San Antonio Zoo
3903 N. St. Mary's Street
San Antonio, TX 78212-3173
Tel: (210) 734-7184
With more than 3,000 animals representing 700 species, the San Antonio Zoo maintains one of the largest animal collections in the United States. The San Antonio Zoo has an extensive captive breeding program for endangered species.
Midwest
- Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
3400 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45220
Tel: (513) 281-4700
- The Cincinnati Zoo & Gardens has an extensive education program, offering a diversity of education materials and curricula, teacher and student workshops, in-zoo and in-class activities, and materials specifically related to insects and plants.
Support Offered:
- Educational materials
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Live insect exhibits
- Specimen collections open to the public
- Information about biodiversity
- Information about local endangered species
- Professional development programs/workshops
- Family activities
- Newsletter or journal
- Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
3900 Wildlife Way
Cleveland, OH 44109
Tel: (216) 661-6500
E-mail: cmzoomkt@interramp.com
- The Zoo offers a series of Ed"Zoo"Cation programs designed for schools, groups, and organizations that want to learn about plants and animals. Biofacts and/or live animals provide an up close, "hands-on" experience.
Support Offered:
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Educational materials
- Information about local endangered species
- Information about biodiversity
- Family activities
- Columbus Zoo
9990 Riverside Drive
Box 400
Powell, OH 43065-0400
Tel: (614) 645-3400
- The Columbus Zoo has a year-round facility for arthropods on display. It also has more than 800 species of plants placed around the grounds.
Support Offered:
- Family activities
- Information about biodiversity
- Detroit Zoological Park
8450 West 10 Mile Road
Royal Oak, MI 48068
Tel: (248) 398-0900
- The Detroit Zoo offers a year-round calendar of special events and opens at 10 a.m. every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's.
- John Ball Zoo
1300 West Fulton
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Tel: (616) 336-4310 or 4301
- The Zoo offers a number of study units and workshops to students of varying ages and covering a diversity of topics.
Support Offered:
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Educational materials
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Films/videos
- Family activities
Northwest
- Metro Washington Park Zoo
4001 SW Canyon Road
Portland, OR 97221
Tel: (503) 220-2781
- The Zoo has an active education department that should be contacted for specific information. It also has live insects on display.
Support Offered:
- Educational materials
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Live insect exhibits
- Woodland Park Zoo
5500 Phinney Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98103-5897
Tel: (206) 684-4892
- Along with their wildlife exhibits, the Zoo offers a educational materials (teacher packets, designed to meet Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements, which provide in-depth background information about the world's bioclimatic zones, covering conservation, human cultures, plant life, and animals) and workshops and lectures for kids and families. The Education Department can be reached at (206) 684-4800.
Support Offered:
- Information about biodiversity
- Educational materials
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Family activities
- Newsletter or journal
- Field-based activities/excursions
California and Hawaii
- San Diego Zoo
2920 Zoo Drive
San Diego, CA 92103
Tel: (619) 234-3153
- The Zoo and Park offer a wide variety of programs for teachers and school groups, including guided tours and animal presentations. Off-site programs include assemblies and Classroom Check-out Kits. It also publishes a teacher resource newsletter. Call the education department at (619) 557-3962 or (760) 738-5057.
Support Offered:
- Educational materials
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
- Family activities
- Newsletter or journal
- Santa Barbara Zoological Gardens
500 Ninos Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
Tel: (805) 962-5339
E-mail: sbzoo@rain.org
- The Zoo offers classes and Project Discovery workshops, pre- and postvisit curricula, materials and discovery kits.
Support Offered:
- Educational materials
- Classes/workshops for kids
- Enrichment classes/presentations
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