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Bugs are all around us, filling vital roles in the world that enhance biodiversity and the wonder of our lives. Arthropod Ambassadors offers a chance to take a closer look at these amazing creatures, face to face, with many examples to please every audience. We approach our displays through an environmental science lense, and enjoy looking at the biology each species presents.

Keeping a mix of species from predators to detritivores, allows us to incorporate waste back into natural systems, living and learning cycles in the environment. These experiences as a pet bug keeper builds familiarity through practice, and, similar to learning a new plant, it enhances life experience by seeing past the mundane to pick out detail and connection.

Arthropod Ambassadors strives to enhance the public interest in bugs and to increase environmental engagement. Mantises are a great animal to spark people’s interests, as are isopods, yet even conventionally disgusting species such as roaches and spiders can bring extreme feelings that are attractive to certain people, often described as ‘Fascination through Fear’. We offer the opportunity for personal growth away from assumptions about inverts and into curiosity and interest for their diversity and majesty.