[Pollinator] NPW Cradle of Forestry offering day designed to bug you

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Cradle of Forestry offering day designed to bug you

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A bee pollinates a Rose of Sharon.

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Published: Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, June 19, 2009 at 8:57 p.m.
The Cradle of Forestry Historic Site in Pisgah National Forest invites 
people of all ages to come learn about bugs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 
Saturday.

Bug Day, planned in and around the Cradle’s Forest Discovery Center, 
includes a hands-on table with live arthropods, guided bug hunts and 
pond explorations, games and crafts. A wheelchair-accessible, guided 
walk focusing on insect and forest interrelationships begins at 11:30 
a.m. It also commemorates the last day of National Pollinator Week.

Naturalist Ina Warren will display her monarch butterfly exhibit with 
live caterpillars and milkweed seeds to share. She will present her 
program on monarchs and how we can help them in the “Where There’s a 
Will There’s a Way-station,” at 1:30 p.m.

At 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m., meet a naturalist from the Cradle of 
Forestry for a bug hunt in nearby leaves, logs and leaf litter. Pond 
explorations will begin at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. Throughout the day, 
visitors can stop by the Bug Tables and meet live arthropods up close 
at a hands-on bug display, play buggy games and create a Build-a-Bug 
craft.

Admission to
 the Cradle of Forestry is $5 for adults and free for youth 
younger than 16 years of age and holders of America the Beautiful and 
Golden Age passes. The Cradle of Forestry is on U.S. 276 in the Pisgah 
National Forest, six miles north of Looking Glass Falls and four miles 
south of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

For information, call 877-3130 or visit www.cradleofforestry.org. Web 
resources related to these events are: www.pollinator.org, 
www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators and 
www.fs.fed.us/monarchbutterfly/.