Head to Liverpool for bug-themed family fun

This summer Liverpool’s Albert Dock will see the opening of a unique new visitor attraction, the BugWorld Experience. Set to open in July 2009, the BugWorld Experience is the first of its kind in the UK. It will show visitors the world through a bug’s eyes, testing their bravery, wit and skill with interactive challenges and games along the way.

Guided through simulated environments from a rainforest to a savannah to the everyday British home, visitors will see, find out about and even interact with the bugs that inhabit each.

As well as getting the chance to handle bugs like the giant hissing cockroach, those that like their day out with a sting in the tail can head to the BugWorld Experience Base Camp, to sample insect food delicacies from around the world, including chilli locusts, meal worm pancakes and oven baked tarantula!

“There’ll be a real buzz around the place, and that’s not just the Panamanian paper wasps!” says the BugWorld Experience general manager Jenny Dobson. “In all seriousness, this is a must for all budding scientists, adventurers and travellers. Nowhere else in Britain could they get up close and personal to insects and bugs like this in a fun and educational way.”

A number of endangered species will become residents of the BugWorld Experience, where the bug experts are committed to helping maintain and boost their populations through conservation, education and carefully planned breeding programmes.

The BugWorld Experience will open to the public in July 2009. For more information please visit bugworldexperience.co.uk.

Visitors will love these bugs which are not to be missed:

- Preying mantis
- Death stalker scorpion
- Red spotted assassin bug
- Giant centipede
- Mexican red knee tarantula
- The critically endangered Partula Snail, which is extinct in the wild