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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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
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
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
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
First Floor NRC
- Bug Stamp Collection
NC Museum of Natural Sciences - Praying Mantids of the United States
MantidForum.net - SheekGeek Robotic Bugs
SheekGeek, LLC
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
Event presentations and displays are subject to change without notice.

