We use cookies on this site to enhance your online experience. By continuing to use this site, you agree to accept cookies.
OK
BC Wildlife Park
  • About Us
  • Animal Welfare
  • Contact Us
  • Job Opportunities
  • Donate Now!
Purchase Day Passes
  • Plan
      • Accessibility
      • Park Map
      • Ticket Information
        • Day Passes
        • Annual Passes
        • Memberships
  • Things to do
      • Our Wildlife
        • Animal Stories
        • Arachnids and Insects
        • Bears
        • Birds of Prey
        • Canines
        • Felines
        • Home Hardware Family Farm
        • Hoofstock
        • Reptiles and Amphibians
        • Small Mammals
        • Waterfowl
      • Upgraded Experiences
        • Birthday Parties
        • Private Animal Encounter
      • Discovery Centre
  • How We Help
      • Sustainability Commitment
      • Fawcett Family Wildlife Health Centre
      • Injured Wildlife - What To Do
      • Conservation Projects
  • Learn with Us
      • Educational Programs
      • FREE Learning Resources
      • Kids Camp
      • Wild Questions & Wild Answers
  • News and Events
      • BCWP Events
  • support us
      • Financial Support
      • Food Donations
  • About Us
  • Animal Welfare
  • Contact Us
  • Job Opportunities
  • Donate Now!
  • Plan
    • Accessibility
    • Park Map
    • Ticket Information
  • Things to do
    • Our Wildlife
    • Upgraded Experiences
    • Discovery Centre
  • How We Help
    • Sustainability Commitment
    • Fawcett Family Wildlife Health Centre
    • Injured Wildlife - What To Do
    • Conservation Projects
  • Learn with Us
    • Educational Programs
    • FREE Learning Resources
    • Kids Camp
    • Wild Questions & Wild Answers
  • News and Events
    • BCWP Events
  • support us
    • Financial Support
    • Food Donations
Purchase Day Passes

arachnids and insects

 Park Hours

Open Daily
9:30am to 4:00pm | Last Admission: 3:30pm 

  • Plan
    • Accessibility
    • Park Map
    • Ticket Information
      • Day Passes
      • Annual Passes
      • Memberships
  • Things to do
    • Our Wildlife
      • Animal Stories
      • Arachnids and Insects
      • Bears
      • Birds of Prey
      • Canines
      • Felines
      • Home Hardware Family Farm
      • Hoofstock
      • Reptiles and Amphibians
      • Small Mammals
      • Waterfowl
    • Upgraded Experiences
      • Birthday Parties
      • Private Animal Encounter
    • Discovery Centre
  • How We Help
    • Sustainability Commitment
    • Fawcett Family Wildlife Health Centre
    • Injured Wildlife - What To Do
    • Conservation Projects
  • Learn with Us
    • Educational Programs
    • FREE Learning Resources
    • Kids Camp
    • Wild Questions & Wild Answers
  • News and Events
    • BCWP Events
  • support us
    • Financial Support
    • Food Donations
  • Animal Stories
  • Arachnids and Insects
  • Bears
  • Birds of Prey
  • Canines
  • Felines
  • Home Hardware Family Farm
  • Hoofstock
  • Reptiles and Amphibians
  • Small Mammals
  • Waterfowl

 

giant prickly stick insect

extatosoma tiaratum
Bonus Fact:

When threatened by a predator, they will use tactics such as playing dead or shedding limbs in order to escape.

Habitat

Thriving in forests and grasslands, giant prickly stick insects can be found across most of Australia.

Diet

Giant prickly stick insects are herbivores, with eucalyptus as their native food, they will also eat bramble, rose, hawthorn, oak, bayberry, and others. 

Reproduction

The females do not require a male to produce offspring. This process is called 'parthenogenesis', when an unfertilized egg produces offspring.

Distribution

Native to Australia and New Guinea, stick insects have become popular pets around the world. 


brazilian salmon pink tarantula

lasiodora parahybana
Gwen, tarantula
meet gwen:

The Park is home to one Brazilian salmon pink tarantula . She was born in 2001, and was donated to the Park in 2013.

Habitat

These tarantula's prefer rainforest floors with plenty of leaf litter and debris where the spider can hide.

Diet

Carnivorous, and are very proficient hunters, capturing small amphibians, insects, birds, and reptiles.

Reproduction

A female can lay up to 2000 eggs at one time! She will guard the eggs for several weeks before they hatch.

Distribution

Brazilian salmon pink tarantula's are found in the Eastern rainforests of Brazil on the forest floor.


giant african millipede

archispirostreptus gigas
Bonus Fact:

Most millipedes have two pairs of legs per segment on their body, and when born, they only have 3 pairs of legs! Every time a millipede molts (sheds its old exoskeleton), it grows new segments and legs.

Habitat

Found primarily in rainforests; however, can also live in coastal habitats.

Diet

Millipedes are ditritivores,  meaning they primarily consume dead or decaying plant matter.

Reproduction

Typically only reproducing once per year, females will lay hundreds of eggs in the soil which take approximately 3 months to hatch into tiny white millipedes.

Distribution

Residing primarily in the lowland parts of east Africa. 


 

Are you looking for a way to help out our park animals?

Donate Now

caza 2012 logo std.JPG
Visit Us

9077 Dallas Dr.
Kamloops, BC, V2C 6V1

Get in Touch

Phone: (250) 573-3242
Email: info@bcwildlife.org

Join us on FacebookConnect on Instagram

GET up to date

Our monthly newsletters keep you up to date on the latest events happening in our park.  


Copyright © 2023, BC Wildlife Park - All Rights Reserved.
Powered by SiteCMTM— web content management made easy by ideaLEVER Solutions.