Savannah Zone
We’ll be transporting you into the Savannah, best known for its Safari animals like lions, zebras and giraffes. Indeed, you’ll need to walk through a giraffe’s legs to adventure through this zone!!
Here you’ll see Egyptian Dung Beetles hard at work, the Red Spotted Assassin Bug with its ferocious arsenal of weapons, and the Mexican Red Kneed Tarantula, one of the most recognised of all spiders.
We’ll give you a glimpse into their world so you can learn all about them, but remember – they’ll be looking at you too!
BUGS OF THE SAVANNAH
Termites
The termites are a group of social insects usually classified at the taxonomic rank of order Isoptera (but see also taxonomy below). As truly social animals, they are termed eusocial along with the ants and some bees and wasps which are all placed in the separate order Hymenoptera.
Dung Beetle
Dung beetles are beetles that feed partly or exclusively on feces. All of these species belong to the superfamily Scarabaeoidea; most of them to the subfamilies Scarabaeinae and Aphodiinae of the family Scarabaeidae.
BUG TV
Assassin Bug Facts...
- Adult insects often range from 4 to 40 mm.
- They have a segmented tube for feeding (rostrum).
- Dark in color with hues of brown, black, red, or orange.
- Belong to the Reduviidae species.
DID YOU KNOW?
The name tarantula comes from the town of Taranto in Southern Italy and was originally used for an unrelated species of European wolf spider.
The tarantuals natural habitats include savanna, grasslands such as the pampas, rainforests, deserts, scrubland, mountains, and cloud forests.
Many dung beetles, known as rollers, are noted for rolling dung into spherical balls, which are used as a food source or brooding chambers.