Jones Street, The Plaza & Edenton St.

9 am –5 pm

• STAGE: Jones St. Stage (schedule)
• Stag Beetle Battles
• Spectacular Stag Beetles
• Sandy Feat’s Bugged-Out Sand Sculpture
• Café Insecta: Delectable Bug-Filled Cuisine
• BugFest T-shirt Sales: New and Vintage Shirts!
• Information and Volunteer Registration
• Friends of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
• Wake Audubon Society
• Insectivores: A Wildlife BugFest at Piedmont Wildlife Center
• Nature Art Gallery
• Cure Nursery
• Master Gardeners of Wake County
• Butterfly Gardening
• Take a Child Outside
• Bugged By History (N.C. Museum of History)
• Beneficial Bug Wheel of Fortune
• DENR Stormwater Awareness
• Aquatic Insects and Other Water Bugs
• Biological Controls: Predators and Parasites
• Eaters of the Dead
• Composting with Worms by Red Hen Enterprises
• NC Museum of Art
• NC Wildlife Federation-Capital Chapter
• Vintage VW Beetles

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The Kid Zone (on the Capitol grounds)

9 am–5 pm
All ages welcome

• STAGE: Kid Zone Stage (Story Time & Roachingham 500)
  • BUG BYTES: Cockroaches
• Doodle Bugs Street Art: See the amazing creations of Pablo Dumlao, and then draw your own!
• Play Area: Join us to play with buggy hackey sacks and parachutes!
• Create-A-Bug with The Scrap Exchange
• Marbles Kids Museum: Creativity in Motion
• Get Painted by Paint Savvy!
• Alberti’s Flea Circus
• Cameron the Caterpillar
• Toddler Play Ground
• BugFest 2008 T-shirt Sales: Shirts for all ages!
• City of Raleigh’s Nature Programs
• ParkGeek.com
• Holly Springs School of Dance (top of every hour from 10 am–4 pm)

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Bee Zone (on the Capitol grounds)

9 am–5 pm

• STAGE: Bee Bearding with Wake County Beekeepers Association (shows throughout the day)
• Brushy Mountain Bee Farm: Bee keeping supplies and products
  • BUG BYTES: Honey Bees
• Bee Keeping with Wake County Bee Keepers Association
• Local Honey Sales
• Paper Wasps
• Carpenter Bees
• Native Bees Build it Better!
• NC Department of Agriculture
• NCSU Honey Bees
• Demonstration Bee Hive (Bee keeping shows throughout the day)
• Debbie Roos Photography
• Arthropod Olympics: Go for the gold in the Bee Race, Dung Beetle Crawl and other fun activities.  All ages welcome
• BOY SCOUTS REGISTRATION

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First Floor

9 am–5 pm

• STAGE: WRAL Digital Theater (presentation schedule)
• Terminix: Sponsor of BugFest 2008!
• Bee Prints Kid Craft
• What is a Bug?
• Museum of Life and Science: Magic Wings Butterfly House and Bayer CropScience Insectarium
• Cool Crustaceans
  • BUG BYTES: Crustaceans
• Bed Bugs
• There’s a Bug in My Soup!
• The Wonderful World of Orthopterans
• Scorpions and Their Kin
• Tarantulas and Other Spiders
  • BUG BYTES: Arachnids
• Bug Bus—Plant Pathogens and Nematodes Hitch a Ride
• Wagner Photographic and Los Morphos—Peruvian Insects and Insect Collectables
• Praying Mantids of the U.S.
• The Value of Insects
• Social Insects

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Second Floor

9 am–5 pm

• SPECIAL EXHIBIT: Dead Sea Scrolls (advance ticket purchase required)
• Dead Sea Insects
• Careers in Entomology
• Discovery Room (hours 10 am to 7 pm)

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Third Floor

9 am–5 pm

1. STAGE: Windows on the World (presentation schedule)
2. USDA-APHIS: Helping Kick Exotic Pests Out of U.S. Agriculture
3. Rearing and Captive Maintenance of Native NC Beetles
• BUG BYTES: Beetles
4. Hands-On Entomology with NCSU
5. The Bug Vet: Veterinary Medicine for Arthropods
6. Public Health Entomology
7. Build a Termite Maze: North Carolina Entomological Society
8. Backyard Beekeeping Workshops
9. NCSU Invertebrate Medicine Club & WAAZM (Wildlife, Avian, Aquatic & Zoological Medicine)
10. Stump the Experts!
11. Butterflies and Moths: N.C. School of Science and Mathematics
• BUG BYTES: Butterflies and Moths
12. Carolina Butterfly Society
13. Pods from the Past: Fossil Arthropods

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Fourth Floor

9 am–5 pm

• Photography (Paul Wagner and Debbie Roos)
• Naturalist Center (hours 10 am to 4 pm)
• Exotic Bugs
• NC Bugs
• NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center
• Funky Bugs Antennae Crowns
• Arthropod Zoo
• Arachnids: Friends or Phobia?
• Creeping Crawlies: Centipedes and Millipedes
  • BUG BYTES: Horseshoe Crabs
• Living Conservatory (hours 10 am – 5 pm, guided tours every 15 minutes)
• Plant Industry: Protecting NC from Exotic Insects
• Robotic Bugs: Build a Working Robot with SheekGEEK.com and NCJETS

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