Cook's Pest Control, a long-established business in town, originally set up some employee training displays on insects and the damage they inflict. Over time these evolved into a full-blown museum, though now the insect portion occupies one small corner of the building. There are many giant insect specimens -- big roaches and beetles pinned to displays or slowly rotating on Lazy Susans. A couple of glass cabinets are filled with termite-ravaged items (wall cutaways, a half-eaten hammer, gutted books) and labeled displays such as "Rat Gnawings on Rubber Hose." The message is that nothing is sacred to vermin -- even a baseball's innards have been consumed.
The rest of the Museum features mounted wildlife, live snakes, and free movies. While we wandered through, the gift shop was doing a brisk business selling mementoes to a busload of schoolkids.
