Victoria Bug Zoo

The Victoria Bug Zoo is a two-room minizoo that is located in downtown Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, just one block north of the Fairmont Empress Hotel. The Victoria Bug Zoo is owned and operated by International Bug Zoos Incorporated.

Features

The Bug Zoo exhibits about 50 species of insects, arachnids, and Myriapoda and is currently the largest tropical insect collection in North America and has Canada's largest ant farm that contains leaf-cutter ants.

Visitors can chose to come in and tour around for themselves or can walk around with a tour guide and learn about the insect world. Furthermore, while with a tour guide, visitors can hold and handle different varieties of species like tarantulas, cockroaches, scorpions, walking sticks, millipedes, and praying mantis.

Under new management as of May 2014.

External links

Official website

Zoos and aquaria of British Columbia

Aquaria	Pacific Undersea Gardens Sealand of the Pacific Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre Ucluelet Aquarium Vancouver Aquarium

Zoos	Bloedel Floral Conservatory British Columbia Wildlife Park Greater Vancouver Zoo Okanagan Game Farm Victoria Bug Zoo Victoria Butterfly Gardens Stanley Park Zoo

Coordinates: 48°25′31.74″N 123°22′10.36″W / 48.4254833°N 123.3695444°W / 48.4254833; -123.3695444

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