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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 02/04/2026

Species ID Was told it was Damon diadema but it (he?) only has 2 bands on the legs instead of 3 distinct ones. My thought it Damon medius. (Subadult) If anyone knows for sure please let me know! :-) #arachnids #speciesID #arthropods #blueskyspiders

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 10/03/2026

Been a while! Wanted to share the new puppy. Meet “Bucatini” my new Columbian Boa Constrictor ❤️ He is a wonderful new animal ambassador and came to me from small breed animal rescue in Vista, CA

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 28/10/2025

Do I have a peppered cockroach with some form of dwarfism? This is so cool! (Archimandrita tesselata) In my hand is a juvenile. They don’t get wings until adult (bottom) the small one on top with the wings is smaller than my juvenile! #insects #bugs #nature

Peppered Cockroaches
Left (in hand) - Juvenile (no wings)
Top - possible adult with dwarfism?
Bottom - full adult with wings

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 09/09/2025

Look at this little noodle! She is getting so big! Despite her puny size she has already been part of quite a few of my live animal programs and the kids (and adults) LOVE her! (Obviously 😜) “Tambi” - Kenyan Sand Boa (Eryx colubrinus) #herpsky #reptiles #snakes #reptile

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 07/09/2025

Some good looking Giant African Milliedes! S. Fisheri They are excellent outreach animals and a crowd favorite! #inverts #bugsky #diplopoda #millipede

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 24/08/2025

Bunny bonding! 🥰 Hopefully Stanley (Flemish Giant) and Oats (Holland Lop) will be the best of buds/roomates soon! #rabbits #bunbuns #animalcare

Two rabbits laying together on grass (golden retriever in the background)

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 01/07/2025

So MANY July Programs 🥰 All programs listed are FREE to the public and perfect for all ages! Please check with venue directly to see if reservations are required. ***Doodlebugs Animal Adventures offers fun and educational LIVE animal programs throughout Orange County CA and surrounding areas #OC

List of upcoming FREE fun and educational live animal programs in Orange County CA and surrounding cities.

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 30/06/2025

Stanley thinks he is a Corgi. He had two outreach programs today in Stanton, CA. Good thing he loves the pet pets 😜 #animaloutreach #rabbits #flemishgiant #animals

Flemish giant rabbit stretched out on a table

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 25/06/2025

Legless lizard anyone? 😜 Mr. Wigglesworth my European legless lizard was a huge hit as always during my Girl Scout programs this week. Now we are off to a reading reptiles program in Long Beach! #summerfun #orangecounty

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 20/06/2025

😝😝😝 “Nubs”, my Columbian Boa Constrictor, and I took a selfie after our library program today. Love my giant nope rope! 🐍🥰 #snakes #herpsky #reptiles #animals #boas #animaleducation#orangecounty

Woman smiling and holding a boa constrictor

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 17/06/2025

“Grubert” and I are about to do some preschool “Bugs and Spiders” programs in Tustin 😝 #insects #preschool #spiders #orangecounty #education #inverts

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 16/06/2025

Just found A BUNCH of these in my Giant Millipede (Spiropoeus fischeri) enclosure! 🥰 No idea what type of isopod it is. This seems to be full size (there are loads of babies too) Food/substrate in milli enclosure is the isopod mix from Josh’s Frogs. 🤷‍♀️ #inverts #bugsky #isopods #invertID #bugID

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 06/06/2025

Upcoming LIVE Animal programs here in Orange County (and beyond) All listed programs are FREE and open to the public, please check with venue directly regarding possible reservations. For a list of all my public events please check out my website. #OrangeCounty #Socal #Steam #Kids #Animals

A list of upcoming LIVE Animal programs

🐸Doodlebugs Animal Adventures offers fun and educational LIVE animal programs throughout Orange County CA and surrounding areas.

While Doodlebugs is fully booked with exciting programs at Summer Camps, Libraries, and Schools through the summer, I am already taking bookings for fall and spring of 2026!

For more information please visit my website, or call/email me.

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 27/05/2025

Today’s episode of “The kid said what now?!?” Me: So, what should we do if there is an animal we are afraid of? 4 yo boy: RUN AWAY! Me: 😳….Or…..we could LEARN about it! Then we might realize it’s not so scary after all! (But…I mean..yeah…I guess you could run 🤷‍♀️) #reptiles #insects #education

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 27/05/2025

Say hello to “Mr Wigglesworth” my European Legless Lizard. (Pseudopus apodus) He has the face of Kermit the Frog but the attitude of Oscar the Grouch. #herpsky #reptiles #herpetology #lizards

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 24/05/2025

Was showing some folks the animal room tonight and we noticed these guys have pupated out! What are the odds that a few hours after my original post they pupate! 😂

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 24/05/2025

Hornworm/Hawk Moth (Manduca sexta) Pupa phase exhibiting a “Deimatic Behavior” or “Startle Display” Wriggling around to detract predators. So weird (cute) 😝 #insects #bugsky #🐛 #invertebrates #entomology #stem

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 22/05/2025

I had 3 kindergarten LIVE animal programs yesterday. It was also my birthday. I jokingly mentioned it to the teacher when she booked the programs last month.... EACH CLASS SANG ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY (with cha cha cha's 🥳) 25 5-6 year old singing to me??? It was a good day 😆

woman with green cheek conure on her head messing up her hair.

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 20/05/2025

He is such a good lookin' boy. 🥰 "Cpt Blueberry" - Indonesian Blue Tongue Skink

Indonesian Blue Tongue Skink held in hand and being pet by a child

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 18/05/2025

Don’t forget to touch grass. “Gobi” - Bearded Dragon #reptiles #herpsky

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 17/05/2025

This is how our 75lb Golden Retriever likes to sleep. RIP couch.

Golden retriever laying on the back of a couch

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 12/05/2025

Pretty sure this picture shows me describing the barbed pedipalps of "Bobby" my amblypygid. 🙃 Check out the second photo for a good up-close view of bobby 🥰 (unintentional product placement for Tandem insulin pump here 💫) #bugsky #invertebrates #arachnids #nature #stem #orangecounty #socal

woman talking to visitors about a whip spider

whip spider (aka amblypygid) on a log. closeup image of the barbed pedipalps (modified mouthparts used in defense and to grasp prey)

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 11/05/2025

Hissing Cockroaches are always a crowd favorite during my live animal programs & touch table events 🥰 Bug Day 2025 OHG - Orange County, CA #bugsky #nature #stem #insects #educationaloutreach #socal

Woman holding hissing cockroaches for people to see

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 09/05/2025

She is just so pretty. (My Chilean Rose Hair tarantula during one of my live animal touch table events last month) #spidersky #inverts #education #stem

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 07/05/2025

Today, during some “Creepy Crawlies” programs First grade students got to compare 2 Peppered Cockroaches (Archimandrita tesselata) One that was a freshly molted! We also turned off the lights to see the scorpion photo luminesce. #bugsky #inverts #edsky #stem #orangecounty

Photo of two peppered cockroaches. Left is freshly molted and lighter in color

Emperor scorpion partially hidden under bark showing photoluminescence

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 04/05/2025

Watching my son’s pitching lesson…but also being a Disney Princess… Stink Bug Nymph 📍- Orange County, CA #bugsky #insects #inverts

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 04/05/2025

Walked in to this gem as I was setting up for a kinder program last week. I’m dying to know what was said leading up to that side eye. 🤭 ****SAVE PBS & NPR #pbs #sesamestreet

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 01/05/2025

Poppin’ pupa Darkling beetle (Tenebrio molitor) pupa *the larval stage is the mealworm a common feeder insect These guys metamorphose so much easier than superworms (Zophobas morio) #insects #inverts #bugsky

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 29/04/2025

Franklin is over here manifesting… Golden retrievers are such adorable goobers but they can always find the weakest link in the “don’t feed the dog at the table” chain.

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 28/04/2025

Teeny tiny danger noodle 🥰 “Tambi”- Baby Kenyan Sand Boa non venomous but %100 cute #snakes #herps #reptiles

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 28/04/2025

Peekaboo! Baby praying mantis that just hatched today!

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 28/04/2025

Baby mantis are finally hatching out of their ootheca! I think there may be some spider web on some? But I found plenty on nearby leaves so I didn’t want to mess with them. #inverts #prayingmantis #bugsky #bugs #backyardwildlife

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 27/04/2025

Took Stanley (13lb Flemish Giant Rabbit) out for a jaunt in the backyard today and was feeling a bit silly. Hope you enjoy. #rabbits #rabbitsky #animalcare #tiktok #funnyanimalvideos

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 27/04/2025

She big…but she not THAT big… Not sure how this grumpy loaf is sitting to make herself look this rotund but I’m pretty sure I’ll regret it if I say anything to her. #caturday

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 26/04/2025

This kid…she helps me so much during my animal meet and greets for doodlebugs (when she isn’t rocking all her honors classes, or kicking butt in club volleyball🥰) I have loved watching my “mini me” thrive & at almost 13yrs old and over 5’8” she won’t be my MINI much longer! 😂 #motherdaughter #

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 26/04/2025

Kosmo and Shelly (Costco) at the District at Tustin today for the annual earth day event. I think he has a bit of a crush…☺️ #orangecounty #herps #outreach #socal #earthday

Person in Turtle costume holding a tortoise

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 25/04/2025

Attention Orange County Families🍊 The District at Tustin Legacy is hosting their annual EARTH DAY event this Sat 4/26 from 12-2! Doodlebugs Animal Adventures will be there 12:30-2pm with LIVE animal friends! (We will be coming from "Bug Day" @ Orange Home Grown 9:30-11:30am) #bugs #OC #earthday

Free Earth Day event Saturday, April 26th from 12:00pm-2:00pm
The district at Tustin Legacy in orange County, CA

Flyer shows a photo with children and adults meeting and touching a milksnake.

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 25/04/2025

The world would be a much better place if we could all get along like my golden retriever puppy and my baby Holland Lop ✌️ Franklin + Oats —>Fur-evah #rabbits #puppies

Golden retriever and rabbit laying next to each other.

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 24/04/2025

Today's episode of "The kid said what now?!?" (at a touch table program) Me: This is a Giant African Millipede... 8-9 yr old : Yo! Its a BIG BACK millipede! me: 😶 I have never felt so "born in the 1900's"

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 24/04/2025

Just a typical evening. (Golden retriever puppy wishing the baby rabbit would share the snacks…)

Woman on the phone with a rabbit on her shoulder and a dogs head in her lap.

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 24/04/2025

I thought it was angry at me, but I think it was communicating with the OTHER isopod down below (which I didn’t even see until re-watching the video 😂) Sea Slater (Rock Louse) ??? Ligia occidentalis -Little Corona - Orange County, CA #invert #bugsky #sowbug #isopods #orangecounty

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 23/04/2025

This kid’s adults are raising her right 🥰 I bring about 15 different animals to my touch tables and I never know what will be the favorite (usually it’s the giant millipedes) Last night at a school in San Clemente, Ca it was certainly the 🪱🪱😂 #steam #edusky #invert #bugsky #nature #stemeducation

Child holding earthworms

*Posted with parent permission

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Doodlebugs Animal Adventures @doodlebugsanimaladventures.com · 23/04/2025

Dude! I want to put you back in your enclosure but I don’t want you running up my arm! 🤭 At the end of the video you can see a closeup of her barbed pedipalps (which is how this arachnid catches food) Amblypygid/tailless whip spider #bugsky #invertebrates #arachnids #🕷️ #inverts #nature

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