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...POSTULATE what life would be without a housekeeper at the Insectarium, which features an exhibit modeled on a kitchen stocked with 100,000 live cockroaches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Notebook: The Other Streets Of Philadelphia | 8/7/2000 | See Source »

WILD CARD: The Insectarium--part of the lovely Montreal Botanical Gardens--is home to many living and dead ones. And if the sangria, french fries and cheesecake haven't warmed you yet, be sure to participate in an old-fashioned Montreal bug tasting...

Author: By Judith Batalion, | Title: montreal | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

Unattached Eyeballs. Grandville's favorite creatures were frogs, which he used to symbolize children, clowns, or murder victims, and he kept a pet frog on his drawing table. Insects, too, fascinated him. With his thin spidery line, he created a whole metaphorical insectarium-emperor moths confer with dung beetles, frivolous lady bugs are escorted by loutish caterpillars, cricket barkers play to snails and turtles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: More than a Caricaturist | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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