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BugFest

BugFest Displays

Outside the Museum

9 am–5 pm
Outside the Museum

Inside the Museum

9 am–5 pm
First Floor | Second Floor | Third Floor | Fourth Floor

5 - 7 pm
Evening Insectival

Outside the Museum

Station # Description

1

Life Cycle of a Caterpillar

2

Aquatic Insects in Your Environment

3

Marbles Kids Museum

4

Honey Bees

5

NC Science Festival

6

Kids' Platform

7

USDA – Keeping Those Invasive Insects Out of the U.S.

8

NCS Kids

9

Arthropod Olympics

10

Franklin County Beekeepers Association

11

Interactive Playgrounds

12

Meet ParkGeek & Our Bugs!

13

T-Shirt Sales

14

Anvil

15

Face Painting

16

Endangered Butterflies of North Carolina

17

Bug-Friendly Native Plants

17

Butterfly Gardening/Caterpillars

18

North Carolina Museum of Art

19

Wake County Beekeepers Association

20

Sandy Feat

21

Vermicomposting

21

Eaters of the Dead

22

Critters

23

Bug Bar

24

Café Insecta

25

Friends Membership Table

26

T-Shirt Sales

27

Wake Audubon Society: What Birds Eat Bugs?

28

Beneficial Bugs

28

Biological Control and IPM

29

Wasps!

30

Bugged by History

31

Alberti Flea Circus

32

Doodle Bugs

33

The Scrap Exchange

 

Boy Scouts/Cub Scouts

34

Greenways in the Triangle

35

Seeking Silly Bugs

36

Stag Beetle Battles

37

Battling Beetles

38

Face Painting

39

VW Bugs and Beetles

40

Hedgerow Studios

41

Little Shop of Horrors/NC Theatre

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Inside the Museum

Station # Description

42

Terminix Companies of North Carolina – Nimocks Group

43

What is a Bug?

44

Tarantulas and Other Spiders

45

Scorpions and their Kin

46

Cool Crustaceans

47

There's a Bug in My Soup!

48

Wonderful World of Orthopterans

49

Henna Painting

50

Airbrush Body Art

51

Horseshoe Crabs

52

Cut Paper Bugs

53

WAAZM & Invertebrate Club

54

Bug Bus – Plant Pathogens and Nematodes Hitch a Ride

First Floor

Top

Station # Description

55

SheekGeek: Robotic Bugs

56

Delicious Chocolate Bugs

57

Native Bees Build it Better!

58

Social Insects

59

Praying Mantids of the U.S.

60

SPECIAL EXHIBIT: GLOW (advance ticket purchase required)

61

Funky Bug Antennae Crowns

62

Nymphs and Naiads

Second Floor

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Station # Description

63

Butterflies & Caterpillars

64

Entomology Graduate Student Association at NCSU

65

Insects of the Forest

66

Public Health Entomology

67

The Bug Vet

68

Gardening is for the Birds

69

Create a Termite Maze

70 Bedbugs, Tiny Vampires
71 Butterflies and Moths
72 Stumps the Experts
73 Creeping Crawlies
74 Rob Dunn
Third Floor

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Station # Description

75

NCSU Insect Museum

76

Protecting NC Agriculture from Exotic Insects

77

Knudsen Butterfly Collection

78

Living Conservatory

79

The Butterfly Effect: Alternative Advertising

80

Arthropod Zoo

81

NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center

82

Invasive Forest Insects

Fourth Floor

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Event presentations and displays are subject to change without notice.

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