Bugs and children go together well, don’t they?

Kids had the perfect opportunity Saturday to find out plenty about insects and arachnids at TrailMix.Net in Old Sacramento.

The little hobby shop that specializes in kids’ outdoor activities played host to Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator at the University of California at Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology. She brought many specimens to examine, learn from and, yes, even feel.

“Don’t worry!” she told the kids. “They don’t bite, and the stick ones only crawl a bunch!”

Lots of children were there, with their parents in just as much awe as they were at the bugs.

“They’re cool!“ Josh De La Rocha, 7, said. “I like the dogface butterfly.”

Yang's passion for insects was obvious, as she showed them off and told how accessible the little buggers are.

“They’re very hands-on,” she said. “You can find them in your back yard and you can hold them and watch them very easily.”

TrailMix.Net’s next activity will be hosted by NorCalBats on June 26. For more information, visit www.trailmix.net.

For more information on the Bohart Museum of Entomology, visit www.bohart.ucdavis.edu.