Theme:A Totally Buggy Camp: Integrated Pest Management
Come join the Bug Club as we adventure outdoors on collecting trips, learn how to trap and curate insects, build pest resistant structures, plant butterfly gardens, and meet scientists who spend their career learning about the creepy crawlies that impact our lives. This camp comes complete with a set of insect collecting equipment and by the end of camp, you will have the start to a nice insect collection. The 2012 Buggy Camp theme is about integrated pest management where we will learn how to use the biology of the pest to combat it.
Who: 5th-9th Graders (2011-2012 school year)
When: June 25-29 8:30-4:00 (drop-off 8:00 AM and pick-up 4:30PM)
Where: University of Florida
Entomology and Nematology Department
970 Natural Area Drive Gainesville, FL 32611
Limit: 25 students
Fee: $175 (fee includes T-shirt, insect collecting equipment, snacks, field trips and transportation). Discounts are available for families with multiple campers.
Participants will be required to bring their own lunch.
Activities: Students will learn how to collect insects in both terrestrial and aquatic habitats, they will take part in a Linnaean Game to test their knowledge of insects, they will complete an insect collection they get to keep, they will build a bug out of candy, learn to cook with insects, meet a scientist, dissect an insect, learn about insect communication by competing in a pheromone trail activity, compete in an insect mouthparts relay, play the insect game of life, work a live bee colony, and visit the Butterfly Rainforest. Not bad for a bug camp. Please register today to reserve your seat.
Registration Packet (check made out to the University of Florida must accompany the registration packet.) All registration packets with payment are due by MAY 30th, 2012.
Emergency Contact/ Medical form
Release of Liability
(Note: There is a notary in the Entomology Department, so if you need to sign the paperwork when you bring it to the department, please let Mrs. Burnett know when you contact her.)
You will receive a confirmation e-mail when your packet is approved.
Registration and fee should be mailed by May 30th to:
Entomology Field Camp
Attn: Ms. Glinda Burnett
PO Box 110620
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone: 352-273-3904
Questions: Stephanie Hill - e-mail: larricksk@ufl.edu, 352-273-3969 or Dr. Rebecca Baldwin - e-mail: baldwinr@ufl.edu or 352-273-3974.
