Insectarium

A quieter room for chitin, wing-vein, mimicry, metamorphosis, brood cycles, false eyespots, absurd mouthparts, and all the small evolutionary miracles that make entomology impossible not to love.

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Live Observation Leafcutter Ant Colony

Room Notes

Built more like a museum wing than a scrapbook page: live viewing, specimen rotation, pinned references, and a small cabinet of exact favorite species at the end.

Focus insects & allies

Mood scientific / archival

Best For moths, beetles, ants

Style dark museum labels

Butterfly Pavilion live cams Official butterfly and chrysalis live-cam hub. Museum leafcutter exhibit A museum page centered on a live microscopic leafcutter ant colony view. :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Field References

Since the iNaturalist embeds are blocked, this section works better as a neat research drawer with direct links out instead of broken frames.

Observation Deck

Browse recent insect observations Live community-science sightings from iNaturalist. Browse Lepidoptera observations Moths and butterflies only. Browse beetle observations Shiny armor, horns, tiny weirdos. Browse ants / bees / wasps Colony insects, pollinators, parasitoids, all of it.

Collection Notes

This room works better with outward links than blocked embeds. It still feels scientific, but now everything actually opens instead of failing in-place.

BugGuide North American insect and arthropod identification resource. AntWiki Specialist ant reference and taxonomy rabbit hole.

Specimen Wall

Click any specimen below to rotate the main display and notes.

Order Lepidoptera

Luna Moth

A pale green giant silk moth with long hindwing tails and a very short adult life. One of those insects that looks unreal even when you are staring directly at it.

Order Lepidoptera

Family Saturniidae

Trait hindwing tails

Note adults do not feed