At the same time, a few of you might actually decide to steal a few of my secrets, and that’s ok too. I’m banking on the fact that most of you have been reading this blog long enough that you’ll put up with a few oddities and gimmicks and keep reading even after you’ve seen how the sausage is made, so to speak. This is the part of the blog post where I’m going to risk both ridicule and a fairly substantial loss of credibility by sharing a few of my secret techniques for getting fabulous photos of small creatures. At the end of the day, I took the spider home to get some photos of it before releasing it.Ī face-to-face look at the big wolf spider found at Griffith Prairie, north of Aurora, Nebraska. It was the biggest spider I’ve ever seen in Nebraska, and the kids were duly impressed. In fact, you might say inchworms and jumping spiders are “gateway bugs”…)Īnyway, during lunch on one of the days, Jan Whitney from Prairie Plains Resource Institute found a gigantic wolf spider on the ground, and I scooped it up and put it in a ziplock bag to show the kids. Once they’ve done that, other species come pretty easily. (By the way, my experience is that kids who say they won’t touch an insect or spider can be often be talked into holding an inchworm, or even a cute little jumping spider. Quite a few of the kids had never had any real positive exposure to insects or spiders, so it was rewarding to see them smiling as they held little creatures they would have stepped on or run from the day before. It was a great couple of days, with excellent weather and enthusiastic kids. On both days, my job was to get the kids excited about insects and spiders, teach them a few things, and let them catch and inspect as many things as they could. Last week, I spent two days working with local school kids at Griffith Prairie north of Aurora.
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