Imagining Insects

Public Date: Opening Sept 27, 2025
Location: Ground Floor

Insects live in and can adapt to practically every type of environment on land, including places where few other animals can survive.

It might bug you to know this, but insects are the most common animals on our planet and they live just about everywhere life can exist on its surface. Over 1.5 million species have been named, which is 3 times the number of all other species of animal combined. Understanding and appreciating them has never been more important.

In our lifetimes, we will only ever observe a small portion of what we might wish to see of all insects. They come in so many diverse forms, and are so widespread across the Earth.

However, if we use our imaginations, alongside scientific discoveries, we can explore the lives of insects, their roles in nature, and their importance in the world.

By Imagining Insects we can actually understand a great deal about the amazing structures of their bodies, sequences of their lives, and their ability to thrive in nature.

Insects are incredible! Their highly complex bodies allow individual species to take on unique forms which make them unlike any other insects, and wildly different from other types of animals.

At the same time, every insect — from the solitary, predatory praying mantis to the largest ant colony— have the same set of basic anatomy features in common, such that we are able to categorize them all together into the largest and most diverse group of animals that exists on Earth.

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