Tuesday, April 26, 2016

2nd Annual Riverside Insect Fair


RIVERSIDE, CA Get a little bugged out as you touch a tarantula, buzz by the bees, or smell a stink bug. The Riverside Metropolitan Museum and the UC Riverside Entomology Graduate Student Association will host the 2nd Annual Riverside Insect Fair to give our community the opportunity to learn how insects impact our lives.
 
With more than 50 booths, guests will be able to make a tie-dye shirt with dye from ground-up insects, enter a world of butterflies, and encounter a Madagascar Hissing Cockroach.
 
Special guest Bug Chef, David George Gordon, will create culinary masterpieces using ants, grasshoppers, centipedes, scorpions and their kin. His program is fun, educational and extremely popular Fair attendees.
 
You will also hear from local scientists’ address Colony Collapse Disorder, vector control tips for Zika, West Nile, and other viruses and urban pest control tips.
 
The event will also feature crafts and learning tools, books and jewelry, and experts to ask those pesky questions about the creepy crawly critters found around us.
 
For more information: (951) 826-5273 or www.riversideca.gov/museum.
 
                        
 
Where: Riverside Metropolitan Museum
 
When: April 30, 2016; 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost:  Free and Open to the public

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