(Enid, OK)-- Leonardo’s Children’s Museum has welcomed three new “crawling” additions in the Critter Clubhouse! Your kids will love seeing Leonardo’s cool new exhibit featuring four different bugs. We have a Giant Texas Brown Millipede, a Bumblebee Millipede, a Scarlet Millipede and a Blue Death Feigning Beetle.
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“We are so excited to have more invertebrates at Leonardo’s to be able to educate children,” says Heather Newman, Biologist and Animal Coordinator at Leonardo’s Children’s Museum. Newman says kids are curious about bugs and millipedes are fairly docile critters. Millipedes don’t bite and they cannot sting. Invertebrates have no backbone or spine.
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The Blue Death Feigning Beetle is native to Southwestern United States and when it feels threatened it pretends to be dead and “faints” until the trouble has past. The powdery blue hue coloring is from a wax secreted throughout their bodies that keeps them from losing moisture. This cool beetle can live up to eight years.
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Millipedes are decomposers and actually don’t have 1,000 legs but less than 100. When they hatch, millipedes only have three pair of legs. They aren’t fast creatures and can’t outrun predators so instead they coil their bodies into a tight spiral to protect the soft underbelly. Another cool thing is millipedes can live up to seven years."
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New Exhibit at Leonardo’s Children’s Museum
