{"id":110500,"date":"2025-01-10T12:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;eventDate=2025-08-09#038;p=106787"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T15:37:22","slug":"science-today-blood-sucking-bugs-event","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/science-today-blood-sucking-bugs-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Science TODAY: Blood Sucking Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_112086\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112086\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-112086\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bedbug2-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"closeup photo of a bedbug on a white background\" width=\"590\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bedbug2-1024x661.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bedbug2-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bedbug2-500x323.jpg 500w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bedbug2-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bedbug2-1536x991.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bedbug2-2048x1321.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-112086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bedbug photo by Matt Bertone<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Go inside the globe of the SECU Daily Planet Theater for live presentations and interactive shows led by scientists and educators. Meet researchers, witness live demonstrations, and engage in Q&amp;A sessions with experts. With ever-changing topics and guests, there\u2019s always something new and exciting to learn.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, and 3:00 PM<\/strong> &#8211; Presentations in the SECU Daily Planet Theater<br \/>\nGuest speakers from NC State University will provide an overview of blood sucking insects and other arthropods, from mosquitoes to ticks to bed bugs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1:00 PM &#8211; 4:00 PM<\/strong> Explore activity stations on the first floor of the Nature Research Center<br \/>\nMeet researchers from NC State University at special activity tables about blood sucking insects and other arthropods.<\/p>\n<p><em>Support provided by TriCEM and the NC State Genetics and Genomics Academy<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go inside the globe of the SECU Daily Planet Theater for live presentations and interactive shows led by scientists and educators. Meet researchers, witness live demonstrations, and engage in Q&amp;A sessions with experts. With ever-changing topics and guests, there\u2019s always something new and exciting to learn. 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM, and 3:00 PM &#8211; Presentations&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/event\/science-today-blood-sucking-bugs-event\/\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[3,4,5,13,15,47,8,247],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/110500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/110500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110500"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=110500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}