Announcements: Follow the contest at @OklaUglybug on Twitter!!

2020 Oklahoma Ugly Bug Contest Starts NOW

• Rules of the Oklahoma Ugly Bug Contest
• Application Form for the 2020 Oklahoma Ugly Bug Contest

• Contestant bugs are DUE on FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2020

  Here is last year's MAP OF CONTESTANTS:

  If you and your school want to be on the 2020 map, join the OKLAHOMA UGLY BUG CONTEST. The steps:

  Students learn about, talk about, capture and vote for the bug who will represent their school Find out about bugs (actually insects is a better scientific name Each bug gets a chance to compete for a bug who will represent the whole school Tell us about your bug! What kind is yours? Why is it interesting? What is its story? Classes vote for the a bug to represent your entire school Carefully pack your specimen and send it to ONE of THREE participating labs at OU, OSU or Phillips 66 (addresses below) . Lots more to do: -->

  Click on the following to see All of last year's Ugly Bug Contestants!

Last Year's Ugly Bug Winners!

Prairie Mole Cricket Merritt Middle School Elk City	Cicada Killer Peckham Elementary School Newkirk	Flower Fly Tannehill School McAlester	Luna Moth Tuttle Intermediate School Tuttle	Robber Fly Verdigris Elementary School Claremore	Ladybug Larva The Academy of Classical Christian Studies

As always, the competition was close. If you want to see ALL of the bugs of the previous year (2018), including the one from your school [if your school entered], Click Here!

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Each of the winning schools will receive a brand-new Leica stereomicroscope for their school!

Here is a link to Last Year's Poster! What does an award ceremony look like? OMS scientists descend on the winning school bringing prizes, posters and images of the winning bug along with fun activities.

Clisk the following link if you want to see a full size PDF poster (but it may take a few moments to load as it is 18 MB!)

The PBS "Beauty of Ugly" show, which includes Ugly Bug, was originally aired in November 2007. Now available on DVD through PBS (for purchase) and by rental at verious places (look up "Nature: The Beauty of Ugly"). This is also available online at PBS, but you may have to pay or be a donor (Oklahoma Ugly Bug starts at 29:35 into the show).

The Contest begins in August each year with results typically announced in the spring.

 

 

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