Insect Insanity at the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum

As every summer, the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum is offering again its popular Saturday Night events. This Saturday evening will be all about insects. There will be talks in the Theater and exhibits of life bugs in the Baldwin Building next door. There will be huge moths, shiny beetles, endless millipedes and attractive centipedes.

Here is the program for Saturday evening:

6:00 p.m. Macro Photography with Jay Pierstorff and Rhonda Spencer

Learn how to take extreme close-up photos of bugs, coins, stamps, flowers and more. If it is tiny, there is a way to make great images with almost any kind of camera. Jay and Rhonda show you how it's done in this 45 minute class for photography enthusiasts of all skill levels.

7:00 and 8:00 p.m. The Bugman!

Learn new facts and dispel myths about Sonoran Desert insects. Join the "Bugman", University of Arizona Entomologist Dr. Carl Olson as he gives two presentations about the 6, 8, and more-legged creatures of our desert.

6:00 to 9:30 p.m. Insect Insanity

Get a bugs-eye view of many of the arthropods that live in the Sonoran Desert. Experts will be on-hand to answer all your arthropod questions.  

 

See you there!