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Bugs
This spring we'll be exploring the world of Bugs. Make a bug, see a bug, be a bug.
Visit the special touring hall exhibition Bug Lab: Little Bugs, Super Powers, and then see the Bugs Alive exhibition in Melbourne Museum's Science and Life Gallery.
Family activities include making an ant antennae and participating alongside Polyglot Theatre’s Ants free performances. (Ants will appear most days, check the museum website for exact dates.)
You can also join us on weekends in September to learn about Bogong Moths and make your own big fat Bogong Moth to take home.
Polyglot Theatre's Ants
Source: Polyglot Theatre
Photo: William Hall
Ants is an interactive roving performance which has giant Ants bringing children together in a gentle and unusual landscaping project.
Faced with hundreds of giant bread crumbs and three big insects, the children are irresistibly drawn in and must figure out what the Ants want them to do. Gradually, a world of meaning unfolds, illustrating the human desire for order by transforming any public space with wavering lines and patterns.
Ants is an enchanting investigation into the nature of work and children’s relationship with their environment.
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Ant Antennae
Source: Museums Victoria
Photo: John Broomfield
Being such social creatures, an ant’s antennae are extremely important for their survival. They use their antennae to hear, touch, smell and communicate with each other.
Join us in the Spring school holidays and become an ant by creating your own special antennae. Wear them and join the other ants in the Polyglot Theatre’s Ants performance, then take them home to remind you of your ant experience.
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Stick Insect Egg Sorting
Source: Museums Victoria
Photo: Jon Augier
Australia has approximately 150 types of stick insects or Phasmatodea. Here at Melbourne Museum our Live Exhibits staff keep nine of these species. Their eggs, dropped from the canopy of trees, look like small seeds in the forest leaf litter.
Your job will be to sort through the leaf litter to find the eggs. You’ll have a set of tweezers, a tray of leaf litter with eggs and a cup to gather the eggs you find.
Sometimes nymphs hatch, much to the excitement of participants.
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