ISU Insect Zoo brings creepy crawlies to Expo

No matter what Jillian Kurovski had just explained about the low threat level a tarantula represents to human beings, when one of the furry legged spiders escaped her glass home Friday morning, spectators jumped back a bit.
Kurovski works for the Iowa State University Insect Zoo, a traveling exhibition that visited the Calhoun County Expo. Visitors were able to take a closer look at walking sticks, elephant beetles and hissing cockroaches, as well as tarantulas, meal worms and even hermit crabs.
“The last thing a tarantula wants to do is use their venom on you,” Kurovski told two girls who were eyeing the spiders with big eyes.
After all, the tarantula wants to save its venom for food, and humans are perceived more as a threat than a food source.
Read more in the July 18 edition.