Overview

22 booths
150 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, students
50 community volunteers
5,000 visitors (approx.)

Theme insect

This year’s theme insect was the apache (or citrus) cicada, Diceroprocta apache. Apache cicadas create quite the buzz during sizzling summer days in Tucson and are one of the only insects that sweat. Cicadas feature prominently in Native American mythology, and may be the inspiration for the common “humpbacked flute player” symbol, an anthropomorphic image that symbolizes fertility and reproduction.

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