Insect Zoo At San Francisco Zoo August 21, 2008 8:41 AM
Originally created as a temporary exhibition in 1979, our Insect Zoo proved so popular that the Zoo made it a permanent exhibit. In it, you find terrariums filled with a variety of arthropods, from our backyard and afar, including millipedes, centipedes, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, tarantulas, scorpions, velvet ants (actually a type of wasp) and termites to name a few. Be mesmerized watching our busy bugs the harvester ants foraging for food and taking care of their eggs or the organized bees running the working beehive, where free-flying bees enter from outdoors through a tube leading to the indoor hive.