Evening Insectival 2012
5 - 7 pm
Join the moths, fireflies and katydids for an exhilarating evening of nocturnal activities! The street fair, out on Bicentennial Plaza, will feature live bands, street performers and delicious food. Get your face painted or battle like a stag beetle! Come inside the Museum to visit breathtaking buggy exhibits.
Outside the Museum
Bicentennial Plaza
- Sandy Feat
- Mantid Madness
North Carolina Museum of Art - Roach Races
- Info/Volunteer Registration
- Plaza T-Shirt Sales
- Audubon Society's Mealworm Food Chains
Wake Audubon Society - Bug Cooking Demos
- 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
Inside the Museum
First Floor Main Building
- Flight of the Hawkmoth
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - 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
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