Everything yucky and wonderful was examined at the 4th annual Yuck Day event at Earthplace.  Special guest Geraldine Griswold, "The Bat Lady", brought a big brown bat and a little brown bat to help visitors understand bats and their importance to the environment.  Teenage arachnid collector Georgio Tsangaris brought a large variety of tarantulas,  scorpions and insects for guests to examine.  Earthplace naturalist Jim Hunter led guided walks along the trails in search of mushrooms, fungi, worms, slugs, toads, salamanders and other gross but great natural creatures.  Junior Staff volunteers concocted take-home slime, held cockroach races, helped visitors identify animal skulls, painted faces and helped children create bats, bugs and spiders to bring home.  The beautiful autumn day was perfect for collecting and identifying fall mushrooms and lichen.
 

Geraldine Griswold, "The Bat Lady", and a big brown and little brown bat

 

 

A display of mushrooms, molds and other fungi found in the fall woods.