Exhibition: Attack of the Bloodsuckers

Overview

Learn about mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, leeches, and other bloodsucking parasites in this skin-crawling exhibition!

Through 13 icky exhibits, guests learn the what, why, who, and when of how parasites live, work, and play an important part in our ecosystems. Learn the repellant answers to questions and explore interactive modules:

• Mosquito Cockpit: track prey
• Tool Time: probe like a mosquito
• WentzScopes: magnify a louse, flea, bedbug, tick and mosquito
• Suckers Talk Back: learn of the bloodsucker’s ecological importance
• Inflatable Tick: Mrs. Phillipa Tick grows on you
• Matching Game: match the Gruesome Twosomes
• TwITCHer: spin the dial with your right hand on the head louse
• Mosquito Life Cycle: spin forward or backward from larva to adult
• Suckers from Around the World: bloodsucking bats, moths, fish, lamprey, and birds
• Live Mosquitoes: observe them in safely contained in escape-proof tubes
• Live Leeches: which end bites?

This exhibit is included with regular Museum admission or Mississippi Museum of Natural Science Foundation Membership.