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BugFest

BugFest Displays 2012

Outside the Museum

9 am–5 pm
Jones Street | Bicentennial Mall | Edenton Street

Inside the Museum

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

First Floor NRC | Second Floor NRC

5 - 7 pm
Evening Insectival

Outside the Museum

Jones Street

  • USDA's Deployable Response Unit-Protecting Agriculture and the Environment
    USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
  • Honey Bees
    North Carolina State University Apiculture Program
  • Young People's Concerts
    North Carolina Symphony
  • Jones Street T-Shirt Sales
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Life Cycle of a Caterpillar-A Moving Experience!
    Holly Springs School of Dance
  • Marbles Kids Museum & IMAX Theater @ Marbles
  • Arthro-Pond
    Cape Fear Botanical Garden
  • Kids’ Platform
    Storytime and Roach Races
  • ParkGeek's Passport to Fall Fun
    ParkGeek.com
  • Arthropod Olympics
    Dung Beetle Races
    Ant Races
    Bee Races
  • Cameron the Caterpillar and the Bug Bounce
  • Wake County Beekeepers Association
  • Vermicomposting (Worms)
    Red Hen Enterprises
  • Face Painting-Jones Street
    Paint Savvy
  • Rare and Endangered Butterflies of North Carolina
    North Carolina State University
  • Monarchs: Masters of Migration
    NC Division of Parks and Recreation
  • Cure Nursery
  • Caterpillarology
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Carnivorous Plants of NC
    Wake Co. Master Gardeners

Bicentennial Mall

  • Sandy Feat
  • Mantid Madness
    North Carolina Museum of Art
  • Membership Table
    Friends of the Museum
  • Piedmont Wildlife Center
  • Café Insecta
    Buku
    Willmoore Café
    The Market Restaurant
    Chef’s Academy Culinary School
    Rocky Top Hospitality
  • Info/Volunteer Registration
  • Plaza T-Shirt Sales
  • Audubon Society's Mealworm Food Chains
    Wake Audubon Society
  • Wonders of Water Bugs
    NC Division of Water Quality
  • Biological Control and IPM
    Dept. of Entomology, North Carolina State University
  • Wire Art
    Jonathan Daniel, Wire Artist
  • Alberti Flea Circus
  • DOODLEBUGS: Insects in Chalk

Edenton Street

  • The Scrap Exchange "Events by the Truckload" Free Art and Bug Making!
  • Greenways
    Triangle Greenways Council
  • The Power of the Praying Mantis
    Tutor Doctor
  • Stag Beetle Battles
  • Battling Beetles
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • One Small Step for Mantis, One Giant Leap for Mantids
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Face Painting-Edenton Street
    Paint Savvy
  • Fruit Shoot Sampling
    Pepsi Bottling Ventures
  • ExoInsects
  • Bad Bugs in the Forest
    USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station

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Inside the Museum

First Floor Main Building

  • Terminix Company of North Carolina - Nimocks Group
    Lead Sponsor of BugFest 2012!
  • What is a Bug?
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Tarantulas and Other Spiders
  • Scorpions and their Kin
  • Cool Crustaceans
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Urban Earth
    SEEDS
  • Bed Bugs
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Wonderful World of Orthoptera
    Department of Entomology, NC State University
  • Bugs V.S. Bats
    Wake Forest University
  • Bug Bus - Plant Pathogens and Nematodes Hitch a Ride
    Plant Pathology Society of North Carolina and NC State Department of Plant Pathology Graduate Student Association
  • Horseshoe Crabs
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Airbrush Tattoos
    Paint Savvy
  • Life of a Silk Moth
    Madison T. Drouin
  • Insect Macrophotography
    Entomopixel LLC

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Second Floor Main Building

  • There's a Bug in my Soup!
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Baby Insects
    Discovery Room
  • Funky Bug Antennae Crowns Kids’ Craft
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • North Carolina Mantids
    Bob Palmatier Children's Environmental Books
  • Social Insects
    Dept of Entomology-NC State University

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Third Floor Main Building

  • Pods from the Past
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Creeping Crawlies (Centipedes and Millipedes)
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Stump the Experts + NCSU Insect Collection
    Dept. of Entomology, NCSU
  • Butterflies and Moths
    NC School of Science and Mathematics
  • Urban Pests Inhabiting Our Homes
    North Carolina State Urban Entomology
  • Create a Termite Trail
    North Carolina Entomoglogical Society
  • Tiny Terrors
    Forest Entomology Lab, NCSU
  • Bed Bugs: Don't Pick Up Hitchhikers
    NCDA&CS-Structural Pest Control & Pesticides Division
  • Insects of the Forest
    North Carolina Forest Service
  • From the Tiny to the Tanks: Insects of All Sizes
    NCSU Outreach Program
  • Carolina Butterfly Society

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Fourth Floor Main Building

  • Arthropod Zoo
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Butterfly Adaptations
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Invertebrate Medicine Club
    NCSU-CVM Invertebrate Medicine Club
  • Living Conservatory
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Scherenschnitte
    Christina Long Gregory
  • Protecting North Carolina's Agriculture and Forests from Invasive Insect Pests
    North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services-Plant Industry Division
  • NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center
    NCSU Libraries
  • Mike Boykin Photography
  • Small Wonders Pictures
    William Fisher Photography

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First Floor NRC

  • Bug Stamp Collection
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Praying Mantids of the United States
    MantidForum.net
  • SheekGeek Robotic Bugs
    SheekGeek, LLC
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Second Floor NRC

  • Knudsen Butterfly Collection
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • Native Bees Build It Better
    NC Museum of Natural Sciences
  • The Bug Vet
    Avian and Exotic Animal Care
  • Window on Animal Health
  • Biodiversity Research Laboratory
    Bug Painting by Stacy Lewis
    Math Doesn’t Bug Me-Mathematics Department, NCSU
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Event presentations and displays are subject to change without notice.

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