Come see the bizarre, bad, and beneficial of the insect world.

2024 date will be Saturday, October 19th from 9am to 3pm. Stocking Hall. 

Join us for the annual, one-day Insect Festival hosted by the Department of Entomology at Cornell University. Insectapalooza is an interactive, hands-on experience that features hundreds of live insects, spiders, and other fascinating arthropods. Popular favorites include the Arthropod Zoo and live specimens. Exhibits explore the extraordinary Cornell University Insect Collection, pollination, plant-insect interactions, biodiversity of ants, bees, and soil insects, and how bugs work. Learn how to combat arthropod pests like the spotted lantern fly, ticks, and mosquitos. New this year, there are short workshops on careers in entomology, beekeeping, pollinator gardens, and reducing the impacts of lantern flies and ticks. Numerous kid-friendly crafts. And much, much more.

Insectapalooza is fun and educational for children, teens and adults of all ages. Insectapalooza reflects the countless wonderful ways that insects interact with people and impact our lives — for better or for worse.

Sponsor Insectapalooza

If you wish to become a sponsor for Insectapalooza please contact jsv22 [at] cornell.edu (Jessica Tracey). Sponsors will be listed on this website, as well as in a brochure given to all attendees.

Acknowledgements 

Wesley and Evan LePatner we are thankful for your generous support and sponsorship of Insectapalooza 2024!

Interested in volunteering?

Please contact nm695 [at] cornell.edu (Nadia Martins)

Schedule of Events

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10:00 AM - Pollinator conservation

Learn more about pollinator conservation 

Speaker: Maureen Page
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

10:00 AM - Life in the water - Amazing aquatic insects

Learn more about amazing aquatic insects and their life in the water.

Speaker: John Sanderson
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

10:30 AM - Monarch butterflies

Learn more about Monarch butterflies.

Speaker: Anurag Agrawal
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

10:30 AM - Careers in Entomology

Learn more about careers in Entomology. 

Speaker: Cole Gilbert
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

11:00 AM - How to distinguish the major insect orders

Learn more how to distinguish the major insect orders.

Speaker: John Sanderson
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

11:00 AM - Pollinator Gardens

Learn more about Pollinator Gardens.

Speaker: Scott McArt & Mhairi McFarlane
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

11:30 AM - Battling Bed bugs

Learn more about how to manage Bed bugs

Speaker: Susannah Krysko
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

11:30 AM - Discovering & documenting biodiversity through iNaturalist

Learn more about how to use the iNaturalist app to document biodiversity and contribute to science. 

Speaker: Emily Cavanaugh
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

12:00 PM - How to describe a new insect species

Speaker: Jason Dombroskie
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

12:00 PM - What good are insects anyway?

Speaker: John Sanderson
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

12:30 PM - Spotted Laternfly

 Learn where we are with the spotted lanternfly, covering its spread, impact on crops, and what’s being done to manage it. 

Speaker: Brian Eshenaur 
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

12:30 PM - How to distinguish the major insect orders

Learn more about how to distinguish the major insect orders. 

Speaker: Jason Dombroskie
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

1:00 PM - Life in the water - Amazing aquatic insects

Learn more about amazing aquatic insects and their life in the water.

Speaker: John Sanderson
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

1:00PM - Pollinator conservation

Learn more about pollinator conservation 

Speaker: Maureen Page
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

1:30 PM - Pollinator Gardens

Learn more about pollinator gardens. 

Speaker: Scott McArt & Mhairi McFarlane
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

1:30 PM - Discovering & documenting biodiversity through iNaturalist

Learn more about how to use the iNaturalist app to document biodiversity and contribute to science. 

Speaker: Emily Cavanaugh
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

2:00 PM - Frozen bugs: what do insects do in the winter?

Speaker: Brent Sinclair
Location: 201 Stocking Hall

2:00 PM - How to describe a new insect species

Speaker: Jason Dombroskie
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

2:30 PM - Careers in Entomology

Learn more about careers in Entomology.

Speaker: Cole Gilbert
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

 

2:30 PM - Battling Bed bugs

Learn more about how to manage Bed bugs

Speaker: Susannah Krysko
Location: 202 Stocking Hall

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