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BugFest

Presentation Schedule

Edenton Street Stage
1 PM Steve Harvell: Blues Harmonica
6 PM Graffiti Monkeys
Auditorium (First Floor)
  All Shows 30-45 minutes long
11 AM Bugs R Us- Student Research Trips to the Amazon Tropical Rainforest
Dr. Meg Lowman, Director of the Nature Research Center, and D.C. Randle, Science Teacher at St. Francis H.S.,, Minnesota
1 PM Stalking Bugs by Hot Air Balloon: How Scientists Collect and Classify Insects
Dr. Meg Lowman, Director of the Nature Research Center, and D.C. Randle, Science Teacher at St. Francis H.S.,, Minnesota
2:30 Why are Spiders so Colorful?
Cynthia Tedore, PhD Candidate, Duke University Dept. of Biology
4 PM Special Movie: Bugged: The Race to Eradicate the Asian Longhorned Beetle
Introduction by USDA-APHIS
5 PM Special Movie: Tarantula
The 1955 classic! 81 minute run time
Windows on the World Classroom (Third Floor)
  All Shows 20-25 minutes long
9:30 Ticks: Real World Vampires
Connie Johnson, Medical Entomologist, NC State University
10:30 Bug Spit!
Kelly Oten, PhD Student, NC State University
11:30 Monarchs: Masters of Migration
Brian Bockhahn, NC State Park Ranger
12:30 An Introduction to the Arthropods of North Carolina
Bill Reynolds, Museum Educator
1:30 IWicked Bugs
Martha Flanagan, Museum Educator
2:30 Spiders!
Jesse Perry, Museum Educator
3:30 Tarantulas in Fact and Fiction
Wade Harrell, Museum Educator
Event presentations and displays are subject to change without notice.

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