2009 Hawai‘i Conservation Week
 Kick Off at Bishop Museum Family Sunday
 
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Event hours: 9am – 5pm
$3.00 admission with resident or military ID

You are invited to “Kick Off” the 2009 Conservation Week with the Hawai‘i Conservation Alliance and Bishop Museum at Family Sunday, July 26, 2009 – “Backyard Monsters”!

Join us, as we share with the community Ohana the message of Conservation in Hawai‘i, and how the “backyard monsters”, aka bugs, play a role in conservation. Over 3000 are expected to attend the all-day affair featuring interactive exhibits, live entertainment, games, activities, and more!

 
 
 
 
Summer 2009 is the time for big, big bugs at Bishop Museum! Backyard Monsters features six giant-sized moving robotic insects. From the chills of a 12-foot tarantula to the drama of two Atlas Beetles fighting it out to the grace and beauty of a giant Monarch Butterfly, the animatronic creatures of Backyard Monsters bring the often-secret world of insects vividly to life.

Each of the creatures is between 10 and 12 feet in length. Other featured insects include a Tomato Caterpillar that towers nearly 12 feet high; a paper wasp with a 15 foot wingspan; and a stationary Dragonfly overhead.

The exhibit also includes nine insect display cases and a full set of interactive exhibits that help visitors explore bug sounds, worldwide insect population and insect vision.

Backyard Monsters has been completely refurbished by Adventure Edutainment, an Odyssey Attractions/Garner Holt Productions LLC. The exhibit has won the prestigious endorsement of the American Entomological Society and has appeared at such leading venues as the Field Museum in Chicago, the Science Museum of Minnesota (St. Paul) and Science World Vancouver.