Desert Zone
Warning – the most dangerous inhabitants of the BugWorld Experience await you in the desert area!
The desert is a very harsh habitat for our bug friends to live in due to the extreme heat and lack of moisture. Here it can be over 100 degrees during the day and drop down to below 32 degrees at night so the bugs that live here have to be tough to survive.
Here you will meet a variety of insects including the infamous Death Stalker Scorpion – one of the deadliest scorpions on the planet – and a venomous Giant Centipede who likes nothing more than snacking on a tasty bat! How big is this centipede?! Visit BugWorld to find out.
BUGS OF THE DESERT
Centipede
The Common Desert Centipede or Sonoran Desert Centipede (Scolopendra polymorpha) is indigenous to the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, up to the Pacific coast. It inhabits dry grasslands, forest and desert; in these habitats the centipedes will generally take up residence under rocks, though they have been observed creating burrows in suitable environments.
Sandfly
Sandfly (or sand fly) is a colloquial name for any species or genus of flying, biting, blood-sucking Dipteran encountered in sandy areas. In the United States, sandfly may refer to certain horse flies that are also known as "greenheads" (family Tabanidae)
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INTERESTING SCORPION FACTS...
- Don't like daylight.
- Carry a sac of venom on the tip of their tail.
- Only 25 species can potentially kill humans.
- Prefer insects, mice and lizards.
- 450 million years old.
DID YOU KNOW?
The exoskeleton of a scorpion, made of chitin, reflects back ultraviolet rays and will glow pink or green under the moonlight or a black light. Fossilized scorpions still glow under ultraviolet after 300 million years.
80 million locusts in a swarm, eat their own weight in a day.
Their are 350,000 kinds of beetle. Thats one in five insects.