2009 Bug Camp
Mississippi State University Extension Services (MSU
Cares) presents
Bug Camp 2009!
Bug Camp 2009 will return to Mississippi
State’s campus this year and we will be only hosting one. Mark your
calendars - June 14 -
18, 2009. And, after too long of an
absence, Dr. Jerome Goddard is back! He has recently joined the MSU
Entomology and Plant Pathology Department and we are looking forward to
his humorous sessions and briefing on medical entomological topics. No
doubt we will see some old timers returning for this. We will be making
a few trips to the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge to collect and there
are some other activities we have never done before that we are working
on, that I am sure you will not want to miss.
We are experimenting with several things this
year including online registration. Go to
http://www.cfr.msstate.edu/wildlife/conservation_camp/index.asp
and scroll down to Basic Insect
& Plant Ecology - this is what you are looking for!
For the past few years we have been developing
an insect - plant interaction component for camp, and this year we are
growing the plant component. Dr. Lelia Kelly, who has been camping with
us for years, is working overtime to prepare exciting plant
activities to accompany our standard entomological events. I can promise
you your teachers never showed you some of the things you will see
plants do during camp this summer!
We will be holding camp on campus at
Mississippi State University this summer. We will use a log cabin on
Blackjack road that belongs to the Wildlife and Fisheries Department as
our base of operations and stay in the dorms. Since we are back on
campus you can expect some interesting events at the Clay Lyle
Entomology Building. We are just beginning to set these up, and as we
do, we will share a few with you through the Gloworm.
Parents who accompany campers and campers who
come with a brother and sister will get a little financial break at
last. For years we have wanted to provide families with a little help so
we are experimenting with this as a way to encourage families to camp
and collect together.
If you have questions about camp please do not
hesitate to contact me. I can be reached at 662-325-3482. The
February 2009 Glow worm has Dr. Guyton's e-mail address listed. We
do not post e-mails on-line in order to minimize spam.
We will
be posting pages again this year as the photos come in! Parents, if
you would like any photos from bug camp posted on this site to share
with the other kids and parents, please send them to the webmaster...
Tim Groman, 2321 Palm Cir, Seabrook, TX 77586. CD-Rom, DVD, or
e-mailed photos will be posted as we have in the past. Full size
resolution photos are posted for the first 10 months then reduced in
size to make space for the next years collection of photos.
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