The first time I came to New Orleans with my family, we had
an entire afternoon to kill after visiting the more obvious New Orleans
attractions in the quarter and some museums, and decided to go to the
Insectarium. Not that bugs are generally appealing (I think cockroaches freak
me out more than anything in the world), but it was actually really neat to go
and see all those various insects, strange colors, sizes, shapes and weird
looking in ways you can’t imagine until you go see for yourself. Take it from a
cockroach phobic it was actually a really cool experience to go and see all the
exotic bugs and talk to the crazily knowledgeable people that worked there
about amazing things that beetles can do. Believe me when I say beetles are
capable of things you’d never believe.
It’s definitely an attraction more aimed at younger kids,
but it was interesting and a valuable way to spend time nonetheless. Also, they
have a really pretty butterfly garden at the end, after you see all the more
gross tarantulas and creepier antennae-having things. Something about that
experience was memorable—maybe it was the foot long praying mantises, or the
hand-sized fluorescent green beetle, or the fearless butterflies.
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