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Home / See & Do / Butterfly Center / Hall of Entomology
Brown Hall of Entomology
The Insect Wing –
Upper Level
What are insects? Why are they important? Who are their closest relatives? How do insects see, hear, and communicate? The renovated Insect Wing answers all these questions and more using live insects, spectacular mounted specimens, larger-than-life models, interactive games and colorful displays. In the upper level you’ll search for camouflaged insects, meet a cricket weatherman, learn how insects are used to solve crimes, watch leaf cutter ants at work, see giant wasp nests, get a close-up look of some of Houston’s largest cockroaches, and much, much more! Test your insect knowledge at the quiz stations, or play the Bug Brain Busters game with your friends or family. And be sure to pause at the Chrysalis Corner just before you enter the rainforest area; there you may see a butterfly emerge from its pupa and begin to expand its wings before being released into the rainforest.
The Insect Wing –
Lower Level
Upon exiting the rainforest area behind the cenote pool, you’ll learn how insects are particularly important to humans. Here you can listen to interviews with real life entomologists and take a peek into an entomologist’s lab, where you can look up close at insect specimens. Move on to pick up some hints on butterfly gardening and backyard beekeeping, and learn what does and doesn’t work to control mosquitoes. Finally, you may want to pick up an unusual snack from the vending machine in the section on “Why not eat insects?”
People with toddlers will want to stop off in the “Land of Beeyond” on the main level, where young children can make insect rubbings or put together puzzles, play in a giant beehive, or just sit and look through some insect picture books.
Visiting the Brown Hall of Entomology will provide a heightened awareness of the amazing, still largely unknown world of insects, and an appreciation of their importance. Their significance is so great that eminent Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson predicted most life on earth would perish if insects were to disappear. It’s these little things that essentially rule the world!
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