The Great Insect Fair
The Great Insect Fair is our annual extravaganza celebrating insect with lots of activities, games, crafts, tasty treats and fun for everyone!
Admission to the fair is FREE, but donations are accepted and greatly appreciated!
Activities include:
- Build-A-Bug Contest: Bring your homemade insect for judging and prizes
- Insect Olympics--Haulin' Bee Pollen and Nectar Collector
- IPM/Pesticide Safety Putt Putt
- Cockroach Races!
- Honey Tasting
- Bee Observation Hives
- What Is in a Beehive?
- The Insect Deli
- Insect Zoo: Live exhibits of many insects!
- Bug Collectors and Collections
- The BugMobile Talking Car
- The Bug Doctor Is In! Ask your pest questions
- The Insect Construction Co.: Arts and crafts
- Face Painting and Games
- Vendors selling a variety of insect arts and crafts, books, and T-shirts
Location: Ag Arena on the Penn State University Park campus (Maps and Directions)
Do we have food, you may wonder? You bet! Hungry folks at this annual event have the option of stopping by the Insect Deli for taste treats such as "Cheese and Salsa Tamales with Meal Worms," "Chocolate Chirpies" (chocolate-covered crickets), and more. Previous years have offered such tasty treats as fresh Vietnamese eggrolls with meal worms, barbecued vegetables and wax moth larvae, or meal worm bruschetta. In 2004 Cicada Cuisine was highlighted.
For the less adventurous, a food stand will be available with hamburgers, hotdogs, drinks, and ice cream!
For more information, contact the Department of Entomology, entomology@psu.edu.
The Department of Entomology
The Pennsylvania State University
501 ASI Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-1895
FAX: 814-865-3048
- Build-A-Bug Contest
- Highlights from Past Years
- 2009 Great Insect Fair (Ag Arena at PSU's UP Campus, from Oct 03, 2009 10:00 AM to Oct 03, 2009 04:00 PM)
- Can attending a fair change your life? Possibly, when the fair is an educational extravaganza about the fascinating world of insects!
