ABOVE: Chris Hartley, coordinator of education at the Butterfly House in Chesterfield, Missouri, shows children a Madagascar hissing cockroach crawling on his hand Thursday at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. BELOW: Gerrett Krech and other children take a look at Hartley holding a vinegaroon insect. Hartley also brought a scorpion, a brown recluse spider, meal worms, a millipede, a praying mantis and orange head roaches to show and teach children about insects.
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