Speaker Series: Astrophysics at the EcoTarium

Attack of the Bloodsuckers! Exhibit Opening & Ribbon Cutting
Saturday, January 17, 2026
11:30 am – 12:00 pm

The EcoTarium is excited to announce our newest traveling exhibit, Attack of the Bloodsuckers!

Learn about mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, leeches, and other bloodsucking parasites in this skin-crawling exhibition. Learn the what, why, who, and when of how parasites live, work, and play. At Attack of the Bloodsuckers! visitors can look a real leech in the mouth, receive a big hug from a giant, inflating tick, get itchy and knotty with the life-size game of “Twitcher”—a buggy variation on Twister™, watch mosquito larvae perform their little water ballet, measure the invisible carbon dioxide gas in their breath to learn how mosquitoes follow this gas trail to locate a target, and so much more!

Learn more about this exhibit!

Get Tickets for January 17

Attack of the Bloodsuckers! was developed by the Environmental Exhibit Collaborative (EEC) and funded by Jane’s Trust, the Cabot Family Charitable Trust, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under Award No. MA-02-04-0793-04.