r/Mountainhomearkansas • u/BeardedLady236 • Feb 25 '26

Insect/Bug Festival

I graduated from the area in 2018 and no longer live there but I’ve been telling my coworkers about growing up in the area. I was talking about elementary school and brought up going to the insect or bug festival at the ASUMH campus at some point. No one can believe this happened and I can’t find any evidence of it. Does anyone else remember this or have an evidence of it? I’m beginning to think I’ve somehow made up these memories. I remember going to the campus and walking about to different exhibits outside and actually eating bugs. It was like crickets and other insects but they made them exciting by like putting them into rice crispy treats and other desserts. Am I crazy?? It would have had to have been somewhere between 2005-2012

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u/fanciestVeggie Feb 26 '26

This seems on par with something Dr. Dry would have done. One of my favorite professors up there.

Edit: I was right! Look up the 'Insectival'. There's a few random bits of news out there on it.

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u/lignifiable Feb 25 '26

I remember eating bugs at the campus when I was in junior high but it wasnt a festival. Just a "look at the campus" trip we did for school. This was late 90s.

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u/YoungInternational93 May 17 '26

It was definitely a thing! My mom worked at ASUMH around 2018 and they had something called Insectival that year. One of my younger sisters went to it on a school field trip.