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BugFest

BugFest Displays

Outside the Museum

9 am–5 pm
Bicenntennial Plaza | Jones Street | Edenton Street

Inside the Museum

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

5 - 7 pm
Evening Insectival

Outside the Museum

Bicenntennial Plaza
Station # Description

1

Paint Savvy Face and Body Art

Food

Hot Dogs

2

Sandy Feat

Food

Soft Serve Ice Cream

Food

Lemonade and Sweet Treats

Food

D&J Concessions Hot Meals

3

Café Insecta

4

Bug Bar

5

Friends of the Museum Membership

6

BugFest T-shirts

7

What Birds Eat Bugs?

Food

The Cupcake Shoppe Bakery

8

Children's Craft

Food

D&J Concessions Hot Meals

9

Wasps!

10

Bugged By History

11

Aquatic Bugs: Teaching Us About Water Quality

11

Beneficial Bugs Wheel of Trivia

11

Biological Control and IPM

11

Stormwater and You: Protecting Aquatic Habitat

12

Doodle Bugs

13

Vintage VW Beetles

14

Vermicomposting

Food

Caribou Coffee

15

Dunking Booth

16

Battling Beetles

17

Stag Beetle Battles

  Fly Fishing
  Bug Art & Jewelry
  Take a Child Outside
  NC Theater - Plants That Eat Bugs!

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Station # Description
Edenton Street & Jones Street

Food

Wake County Beekeepers Hot Dog Sales

18

HackeySack Those Invasive Bugs Out of Here!

19

Rabble Craft Station: NC Museum of Art

20

Wake County Beekeepers

21

Holly Springs School of Dance

22

Interactive Playgrounds

23

Marbles Kids Museum

24

BugFest T-shirts

25

ParkGeek.com

26

Paint Savvy Face Art

27

Arthropod Olympics

28

Honey Bees

Stage

Roach Races and Story Time
(see Presentation Schedule for times)

Food

Ice Cream

29

Insect Stamps From Around the World

30

Harris Lake County Park

31

Butterfly Gardening

31

Cure Nursery

31

Successful Gardening Clinic

32

Conservation of Rare Butterflies in North Carolina

32

Monarchs - Falls Lake State Recreation Area

Tents

Boy Scouts of America Activity Check-In

  Bead Bugs
  Gary Caldwell: Bug Sculpture

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Inside the Museum

Station # Description

33

Terminix Companies of North Carolina Sponsor of BugFest 2010

34

What is a Bug?

35

Tarantulas and Other Spiders

36

Scorpions and their Kin

37

Cool Crustaceans

38

There's a Bug in My Soup!

39

Wonderful World of Orthoptera

40

Henna Painting

41

Airbrush Temporary Tattoos

42

Horseshoe Crabs

43

Millipedes and Centipedes

43

Stump the Experts

44

Bug Bus- Plant Pathogens and Nematodes Hitch a Ride

45 SheekGeek: Robotic Bugs
First Floor

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SPECIAL EXHIBIT: GLOW (advance ticket purchase required)

Station # Description

46

Chocolate Covered Mealworms

47

Fantastic but Forlorn Flies

48

Native Bees Build it Better!

48

Super Flies: The Greatest Buzz on Earth

49

Praying Mantids of the U.S.

50

Social Insects

51

Antenna Crowns

52

Discovery Room

53 Forest Pests
54 Macroinvertebrates
Second Floor

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Station # Description

55

Making Bad Bugs Stay Away

56

Invertebrate Medicine

57

Carolina Butterfly Society

58

The Bug Vet

59

Create a Termite Maze

60

Cockroaches and Bed Bugs: Unwelcome Guests

61

Butterflies and Moths

61b Forest Service: Forest Health
Third Floor

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Station # Description

62

Entomology Graduate Student Association

63

NCSU Special Collections Research Center

64

The Butterfly Effect: Alternative Advertising

65

Living Conservatory

66

Public Health Entomology

67

Knudsen Butterfly Collection: Naturalist Center

68

Protecting North Carolina from Invasive Pests

Fourth Floor

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Event presentations and displays are subject to change without notice.

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