"Insectivore Weekend" at Prague Zoo: Cricket Tastings and Aardvark Feedings

This coming Saturday and Sunday, 25 and 26 July, Prague Zoo (Zoo Praha) will hold its popular "Insectivore Weekend." Alongside themed animal feedings, visitors can enjoy free tastings of insect-based dishes, commentated cooking demonstrations, and a display of farm-raised insects. There will also be competition zones for kids. The first hundred visitors who buy their ticket at the main box office each day will receive a bonus — a packet of flavoured crickets.

What's on the menu

Insect delicacies will be served near the Vzdělávací centrum (Education Centre) from 10:00 to 16:00. On the menu:

• Indian-style mealworms with couscous;
• garlic crickets;
• sweet locusts in batter with banana, pancake, and chocolate glaze;
• mealworm beetles with caramelised apples;
• mixed insect skewers with vegetables.

Visitors will also learn how Brazilian mealworm beetles, Argentine cockroaches, and so-called mealworms are raised and prepared. Packaged insect-based products will be available for purchase on site as well.

Feedings across the zoo

All weekend long, the zoo's own insect-eating residents will have a special menu too — commentated feedings are held throughout the grounds:

• 10:15 — talapoin monkeys (Dja Reserve);
• 10:30 — aardvarks (African House);
• 10:45 — meerkats (African House);
• 10:30 and 10:45 — desert lizards (Kattakum and Sonora exhibits, Pavilion of Predators and Reptiles);
• 13:30 — anteaters (lower part of the zoo);
• 15:30 — critically endangered Sunda pangolins (Indonesian Jungle).

The full programme is available on the zoo's website, zoopraha.cz. Address: U Trojského zámku 3/120, Prague.

Photo: Petr Hamerník, Zoo Praha. Source: Zoo Praha press office.