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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

Description

Life Cycle of a Caterpillar

Teacher Resources

Marbles Kids Museum

Honey Bees

NC Science Festival

Kids' Platform

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

Arthropod Olympics

Franklin County Beekeepers Association

Interactive Playgrounds

Meet ParkGeek & Our Bugs!

T-Shirt Sales

NC State Parks: Monarch Butterflies

Face Painting

Endangered Butterflies of North Carolina

Bug Food

Butterfly Gardening/Caterpillars

North Carolina Museum of Art : Arachnid Art

Wake County Beekeepers Association

Sandy Feat

Vermicomposting

Roach Races

Bee Bearding

Bug Bar

Café Insecta

Friends Membership Table

Wake Audubon Society: Mealworm Food Chains

Beneficial Bugs

Biological Control and IPM

Bugged by History

Doodle Bugs

Greenways in the Triangle

Stag Beetle Battles
Battling Beetles
VW Bugs and Beetles
Bugging Out with Mathnasium
Alberti Flea Circus
Eaters of the Dead
Spectacular Spiders
Scrap Exchange
Carnivorous Plants of North Carolina
Spinning Spiders
Wire and Bead Art: Insects and Spiders
There's a Bug in My Soup!
North Carolina Symphony

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Inside the Museum

Description

Terminix Companies of North Carolina – Nimocks Group

What is a Bug?

Tarantulas and Other Spiders

Scorpions and their Kin

Cool Crustaceans

Wonderful World of Orthopterans

Henna Painting

Airbrush Body Art

Horseshoe Crabs

SuperFlies! The Greatest Buzz on Earth

WAAZM & Invertebrate Club

Plant Pathology Society of NC

SparkCon
CSI: Bug Detective Work in the Rainforest Canopy
First Floor

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Description

SheekGeek: Robotic Bugs

Delicious Chocolate Bugs

Native Bees Build it Better!

Social Insects

Praying Mantids of the U.S.

Funky Bug Antennae Crowns

Spiders of the Fall

Our Expanding Oceans
Second Floor

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Description

Entomology Graduate Student Association at NCSU

Insects of the Forest

The Bug Vet

Create a Termite Maze

Bedbugs: Sleeping With the Enemy
Butterflies and Moths
Stumps the Experts
Creeping Crawlies
Tiny Terrors: Bed Bugs, Cockroaches & Mosquitoes
Pods From the Past
NCSU Insect Museum
Carolina Butterfly Society
Third Floor

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Description

Protecting NC Agriculture from Exotic Insects

Insect Photography on Display
Harry Potter Bugs
Dragonfly Landing

Knudsen Butterfly Collection

Living Conservatory

Arthropod Zoo

NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center

Scherenschnitte…Paper Bugs

Tarantulas Exposed!
Water Bears
Exotic Invaders
Fourth Floor

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Event presentations and displays are subject to change without notice.

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