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With National Insect Week coming up, World Museum in Liverpool is celebrating with a special Creepy Crawly Week from 23 June – 1 July.

There’s something going on every day, from Close Encounters with live insects, to learning about bees and beekeeping, and you could also bump into the Museum’s very own Charlie the Cockroach who will be making appearances throughout the week.

Experts from the University of Liverpool and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will also be coming along to explore the world of insect camouflage and even live blood sucking insects.

You are invited to send a photographer to World Museum on Thursday 21 June at 1030 hours. Some live insects from the Bug House will be ready for their close ups!

Creepy Crawly Week events and activities

For more info visit: www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/creepycrawly

Insect Trail
All day, every day throughout Creepy Crawly Week

Fly around the Museum on our Insect Trail and learn more about the biggest and strongest insects in our collections. Look out for Charlie Cockroach to help you find the answers.

Close Encounters
23, 24, 30 June and 1 July: 11am - 12noon
25, 26, 27, 28, 29 June: 1 - 2pm

Get up close and personal with a whole range of live insects, spiders and scorpions. Expert demonstrators will be on hand to talk about the live specimens from the inspector.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Meet the Relatives
23 June – 1 July: 12 – 1pm

Insects may dominate on land but in the oceans it's their cousins the crustaceans that rule. Come and meet some amazing animals from Prawns to Horseshoe Crabs and learn more about their way of life.

Collect free tickets on the day

Creepy Crawly Tours
23 and 24 June: 12:30 – 1pm
30 June and 1 July: 12:30 – 2pm

Go behind the scenes, meet a Curator and see some of the one million entomology specimens at World Museum. Butterflies, bees, bugs, beetles and much more.

Collect free tickets on the day

Insect Inspiration
23, 24, 30 June and 1 July: 1 – 4pm

This is a family activity where you can find out more about insects in the Museum’s Clore Natural History Centre. Let insects inspire you to make a whole range of craft items including flying dragon flies, leggy lady birds and much more. You will be able to display your work in the Clore Natural History Centre or take it home.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Insect Camouflage
23 June: 1 – 4pm

Insects can hide like no other animals on the planet. Let the experts at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Integrative Biology demonstrate the amazing cryptic camouflage in caterpillars and hear about their discoveries on the evolution of colour in moths.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Meet Charlie Cockroach
23, 24, 30 June and 1 July: 11am – 3pm

Come and meet our playful cockroach Charlie, have your photo taken and let him tell you about all the wonderful insect events taking place in the Museum.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Blood Sucking Insects
24 June: 1 – 4pm

Come and see some of the world’s most deadly animals. Experts from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine will have live specimens of some of the world’s most notorious disease-carrying blood sucking insects. Come and learn all about these incredibly successful insects and how they dominate out planet.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

What’s eating our collections?
27 June: 2 – 4pm

The Museum is at war…with creepy crawlies. Take a close up look at the creepy crawlies that munch through the Museum collections. Can you guess which bugs do the damage?

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Focus on Moths
27 June: 2 – 3pm

World Museum’s moth-man, Ian Wallace, will use live moths caught in his own garden the previous night to introduce you to this attractive feature of our local wildlife. Learn how they live and how to study them, and see just how beautiful these nocturnal creatures can be.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Bees and Beekeeping
30 June: 1 – 4pm

Bees make the world go round, without them we would have no crops and no food. But they are under serious threat from all sides. Come and learn more about these amazing social animals and meet our beekeeping experts. Take a peek inside a living bee hive, buzzing with activity and if you're lucky, you may even see the Queen!

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Rubbish Insects
30 June and 1 July: 1- 4pm

Come and see Malcolm as he turns everyday household rubbish into amazing, lifelike models of insects. Malcolm’s paper taxidermy will amaze you and inspire you.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required

Insects under the microscope
1 July: 1- 4pm

Think you recognise an insect? Think again as our insect experts reveal what some of our familiar creatures look like highly magnified. Come and see these creepy crawlies as you've never seen them before.

Drop in/no booking or ticket required