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Arizona – Sonora Desert Museum: Cool Summer Nights – Insectopia
August 2, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Free with Admission
Let’s celebrate incredible insects and amazing arthropods!
The Sonoran Desert is a hot spot of insect diversity and this is your chance to meet them. Get a bugs-eye view of many of the million species of arthropods that make the Sonoran Desert their home. Bring your flashlight and explore, grab a local beer and wander, experience a live animal encounter, scamper in Packrat Playhouse, and feel the touch of a stingray. First 250 guests (starting at 6:00 p.m.) receive a FREE blacklight flashlight! What glowing insects will you discover throughout the night?
- Signature Drink — Blue Butterfly
- Throughout the Night
- Look for Museum Docents around the grounds interpreting celestial desert skies, fluorescent minerals, bats, kissing bugs, scorpions, rattlesnakes, and more!
- 6:00 – 9:30 p.m. Stingray Touch Exhibit
- Admission: $2 Members / $4 Non-members
Visitors are able to create their own moments with these captivating creatures at the Stingray Touch experience. The pool features cow nose stingrays that guests can interact with. Be touched by a ray! - 6:00 – 10:00 p.m. Packrat Playhouse
- This indoor play space allows children to discover the desert through the eyes of a packrat! Packrat Playhouse may reach capacity. 30-minute reserved play times are available at the Packrat Playhouse entrance.
- 5:00 – 9:00 p.m. Art Exhibits
- Make sure to check out ‘Camouflage’ in the Ironwood Gallery and ‘Desert Textures’ in the Baldwin Education Building!