Welcome to the bug crawl at Rockledge Gardens, a self-guided scavenger hunt where you can learn more about bugs, plants, and the very important ecosystem we live in, right here in Brevard County. The perfect educational activity for small field trips, family visits, home-school groups, and more!
Use the map above to tour the gardens and find all 10 signs with fun facts hidden throughout the gardens. You can print the maps out or go paperless and scan the QR code on the signs to pull up the map on your mobile device!
Bug Crawl Locations + Fun Facts
- Ladybugs: Veggies + Herbs – Ladybugs eat up to 5,000 aphids in their lifetime! Aphids are tiny bugs that love to eat plants, but ladybugs help protect the garden by munching on them.
- Bees: Annuals + Perennials – Bees visit thousands of flowers a day! They help plants make fruits and seeds by carrying pollen from one flower to another.
- Caterpillars: Butterfly Enclosure – Caterpillars don’t eat flowers or leaves—they eat lots of leaves to get ready for their big transformation into butterflies!
- Dragonflies: Fruit Trees – Dragonflies are amazing fliers! They can fly up, down, and even sideways. They can catch their food while flying—bugs like mosquitoes!
- Grasshoppers: U-Pick Garden – Grasshoppers can jump 20 times their body length. That’s like a human jumping over a school bus!
- Earthworms: Little Bugs Club Playground – Earthworms help plants grow by digging tunnels in the soil. These tunnels allow air, water, and nutrients to reach the plant roots!
- Spiders: Bonsai Plants – Spiders make their webs out of silk, which is stronger than steel! Some spiders can even catch bugs as big as a fly or mosquitoes in their webs.
- Beetles: Shrubs + Woodies – Beetles are great recyclers! Some beetles help break down dead plants and animals, turning them into rich soil for new plants to grow.
- Flies: Carnivorous Plants – Flies make a perfect meal for carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap. When flies land on their tiny hairs, the trap snaps shut! The plant will digest the fly for nutrients.
- Moths: Bamboo Garden – Moths love flowers, too! While bees pollinate during the day, moths come out at night to sip nectar from flowers that bloom in the dark.
