The Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity brings you the Traveling Arthropod Show. Now you can enjoy the wonderful world of bugs right in your own classroom. This program is a great opportunity to bring both live and preserved specimens to local schools and science institutions and compliments most biology lectures suitable for public audiences of all ages.
What is an arthropod?
Arthropods are the most abundant and diverse organism on the planet, and yet we know so little about these tiny animals.
Arthropods include all insects, spiders, scorpions, centipedes, millipedes and other invertebrates with an exoskeleton and jointed appendages (see examples). Unlike vertebrates such as you and me; insects and other arthropods have their skeleton on the outside of their body.
Most arthropods that live on land are insects and spiders, which can be found on every continent and are essential pollinators of plants, decomposers of waste material and are a major food source for many vertebrate species. Without these organisms, our ecosystem would not last more than a few months.
Example of The Bug Show at Marshall Elementary School
