Overview

27 booths + faculty talks + guest lecturer + graduate student-led Ask a Scientist Cafe
4 food trucks
7 vendors 
175 faculty, staff, post-doctoral fellows, students
75 community volunteers
5,000 visitors (approx.)

Theme insect

This year’s theme insect was the honey-bellied green metallic sweat bee, Agapostemon melliventris. This bee is one of many bee species that is solitary, making individual nests in the ground rather than living in social hives. It is a small bee (1 cm long) that can be attracted to sweat for nutrition, but only bites or stings if provoked. These bees are key pollinators of various cactus species in the Sonoran Desert.

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