Friday, July 19, 2013

Honeybees and the Fort River

Baby crayfish!
Today is the last day of session two. Campers escaped the heat by going to the shady Fort River at Groff Park. It was an epic crayfish day - ask your camper if s/he caught a crayfish! 

A dragonfly exuvia (shed exoskeleton)

On Wednesday, the Explorers visited Hans, the farm manager and beekeeper at Bramble Hill Farm. Hans told the campers told the campers about the rewards and challenges of being a beekeeper, and let them sample honey - yum!




On Wednesday the Young Naturalists had a field trip at the Beneski Museum of Natural Science at Amherst College. Not only was it a nice air-conditioned building to get out of the blazing heat, but Fred Venne, the museum educator there, shared all kinds of fascinating prehistory with the campers. It was awesome!



What did cave bears eat?
Dinosaur tracks!

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