{"id":793,"date":"2008-11-19T07:44:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T11:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=793"},"modified":"2008-12-29T21:49:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:49:02","slug":"bugs-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Bugs in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bugs are going to be featured this weekend at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/features\/events\/article908503.ece\">Tampa&#8217;s Museum of Science and Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Harry, a 3-inch-tall praying mantis and the star of New Orleans&#8217; newly opened Audubon Insectarium, is making a stop in Tampa this weekend as part of a three-week tour sponsored, oddly enough, by Terminix.<\/p>\n<p>The tour de insect arrives today and will feature four days of bug races, bug cooking and a bug petting zoo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Museum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mosi.org\/specialevents.html\">link here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bugs are going to be featured this weekend at Tampa&#8217;s Museum of Science and Industry. Harry, a 3-inch-tall praying mantis and the star of New Orleans&#8217; newly opened Audubon Insectarium, is making a stop in Tampa this weekend as part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=793\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-cN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=29","url_meta":{"origin":793,"position":0},"title":"Taking the lake bug census","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"September 1, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Scientists dig bugs to help lakes' health TAVARES -- Like a fortune-teller poring over leaves in a tea cup, Sandi Hanlon-Breuer studies the worms and insect larvae living in the bottom of lakes to see the future. 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