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Bug Fest 2023



Philadelphia Heat Mapping

Volunteers Octavia Jones and her two children, Taegan and Tristen Harris, used the sensor attached to the car to collect heat data in the Bronx as part of the NOAA and partner Heat Island Mapping Campaign, July 2021.
Photo courtesy of Octavia Jones

Cooling off in a Philly summer
Credit: Richard Johnson

Streets in the Hunting Park neighborhood. Those with trees are cooler than those without.
Early Childhood Learning
The Seeds to STEM early childhood learning program is an innovative bilingual program that works with Philly educators or providers, families and children ages 3-5 to promote early science, technology, engineering and math skills, literacy and nutrition to help prepare children for kindergarten.




Behind-the-Scenes Tours

Visitors can see our vast entomological collection which houses more than four million insect specimens.
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A Red Tail Hawk is among thousands of specimens that lives in our collection of over 205,000.
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Groups can take a behind-the-scenes tours of the specimen collections, including here in the Malacology Collection.
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Groups can see the Diatom Herbarium collection which is one of the largest in the world.
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The vertebrate fossil collection houses more than 22,000 specimens.
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Hands-on Learning

Visitors can see insects up-close and in person.
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Hands-on learning at the Academy is fun for both kids and adults.
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Children can see taxidermy specimens.
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Academy educators bring specimens to life for visitors.
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An Academy Entomologist shows pinned insect specimens to a visitor.
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