Bugs come to your classroom

An educator brings live animals to a school, summer camp or daycare anywhere in the Greater Victoria Region. They typically bring a millipede, a cockroach, an arachnid and several stick insects. A session runs an hour, and up to three sessions can be booked at one location on the same day. For younger children who will not sit for a full hour they can split the group into two 30 minute sessions instead. The presentation has to happen indoors with all windows and doors shut so the animals can come out, and they say the larger the group, the less animal handling can take place. They list capacity as unlimited. Visits run Monday to Friday between 9am and 5pm, and outside that may cost more. Indigenous groups get 10 per cent off outreach visits.

Sit together in their own room while an educator brings out a millipede, a cockroach, an arachnid and stick insects one at a time, and hold the ones that can be handled.

They come to you, so the room and the washrooms are your own. It has to be an indoor room with the windows and doors shut, and there is a mileage charge on top of the session fee.