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Reminder: Tomorrow, January 10th, is the last chance to submit your t-shirt design for this year's Insect Fear Film Festival!
Warning: photos of tarantulas! EGSA and the Entomology Department at UIUC are calling for submissions for this year's IFFF t-shirt design! The formal call for the designs, including design specifications, is attached. We look forward to seeing design submissions!
It is almost that time of year again - for the Insect Fear Film Festival! Join us this year for the 42nd annual Insect Fear Film Festival, held on February 22nd, 2025, at Foellinger Auditorium. This year's festival is titled "Tarantula Fear Film Festival: Hairy, Scary Spider."
Join us on Saturday, June 22 for the tenth annual #BeeBlitz during #PollinatorWeek! beespotter.org/beeblitz
Calling all community scientists to join us on Saturday, June 22nd, for the 10th annual BeeBlitz! Meet us at the Pollinatarium and Meadowbrook Park in Urbana, IL or go bee spotting in a forest, prairie, or backyard near you! Learn more: @BeeSpotter #BeeBlitz #PollinatorWeek
The winning entry for the naming contest for our newest EGSA insect petting zoo member is ... Scuttles! Thank you to Eliza for their entry, and congratulations on having the honor of naming our new friend!
**Correction: tonight's raffle is now a giveaway! Everyone is eligible to receive a free raffle ticket! Raffle tickets can be obtains from the t-shirt booth.
Bullet ants, trap-jaw ants, jumping ants… oh my! Driver ants, harvester ants & more! Come check ‘em out under Beckman Institute’s high-powered scanning electron microscope at our Bugscope exhibit at IFFF41 this Saturday! Image credit: Alex Wild
One of the organizers, @uiucEGSA's Elizabeth Bello, was kind enough to talk to Louise about bug reputations, fancy microscopes, and what makes the IFFF such a great event. smilepolitely.com/culture/the-in…
Three more days until the 41st annual IFFF! The first 41 people who arrive at the event will receive a free raffle ticket to win some fun and exciting prizes! If you would like additional tickets for the raffle, you may make a $1 donation and receive two raffle tickets!
Go check out the FUNK ACES library exhibit for this year's IFFF! You can even participate in a raffle to win your own 41st annual IFFF t-shirt!
Go check out the FUNK ACES library exhibit for this year's IFFF! You can even participate in a raffle to win your own 41st annual IFFF t-shirt!
Also, we will be taking name suggestions for our newest addition to the EGSA insect petting zoo, an emperor scorpion (look at that cute face)!
It is almost a week until the 41st annual IFFF! Click the following link for an in-depth schedule of all the fun activities planned on the 24th! Schedule Link: publish.illinois.edu/uiuc-egsa/IFFF…
Insect Fear Film Festival features ‘Ant-Men’ - movies about humans shrunk to the size of ants! Join us Saturday Feb 24th 🐜🐜🐜 @uiucEGSA @UofIllinois @iBioIllinois @uiucEGSA @NewsAtIllinois news.illinois.edu/view/6367/9247…
This year’s IFFF41 T-shirts, designed by Grace O’Brien, will be available for purchase during the Festival on Saturday, February 24th, in Foellinger Auditorium! We will have youth and adult short-sleeve and adult long-sleeve shirts. Join us to get yours!
Come join us for the 41st anniversary of the annual Insect Film Fear Festival, which will be held at Foellinger Auditorium beginning at 5:30 PM CST on Saturday, February 24th. This year's theme: Ant-Men! Please see the attached press release for additional information.
For those that cannot attend the event in-person, tune into the Insect Fear Film Festival Facebook page around 5:30 PM for photos (or possible livestream) showcasing some of the insects in the insect petting zoo! IFFF Facebook Page: m.facebook.com/10005762868909…
Today is the day of the 40th annual Insect Fear Film Festival! Make sure to tag us, @uiucEGSA, in your posts from the event so we can see them! Looking forward to seeing all of the photos!
Join our friends in the Entomology Graduate Student Association for an evening of prehistoric entomological horror!! There is something for everyone at the 40th Annual Insect Fear Film Festival! @uiucEGSA Also, while you are at it... come check out our display at FUNK!
Super excited for the 40th annual Insect Fear Film Festival this Saturday, March 4th at Foelinger Auditorium!!! @uiucEGSA @iBioIllinois @EntsocAmerica tiktok.com/t/ZTRncWCAB/

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