Travel Bugs is a fun, interactive Minibeast Incursion featuring large, live and colourful Australian Invertebrate Animals. Year 2 enjoyed a visit from travel bugs Wednesday 28 April. This was to tie up the topic studied in Science and Technology last term. The boys handled the three types of stick insects; a goliath, tessellated and spiny leaf stick insects. Also visiting was a millipede and we were able to feel the hard shell of two types of beetles, a rhinoceros and stag beetle.  From a distance the boys spotted the well camouflaged huntsman spiders and got up close with insect specimens in resin. The boys really enjoyed the talk and then the hands-on experience of handling some of the insects.

“This grasshopper is found everywhere in the world.” Harrison McIntyre

“The spiders were cool – they had different features and some can bite and some cannot break our skin.” Salim Fodda

“I really liked how you could see how they acted naturally.” Hugo Mesley

“I held the millipede and it felt like little tickling sticky feet.” Leo To

“I loved holding the insects. I was brave enough to hold all of them.” Zain Taleb

“I have some of these insects at my house in my front garden – I loved getting to hold them.” Jacob George

“I liked feeling the insects on my hand.” Gus Peters

“It’s kind of ticklish but I enjoyed it even though I have held three other types of stick insects before.” Rowan Kwok

Lindsay Bosch
STEM Teacher