BROOKINGS – The second annual Insect Festival at McCrory Gardens in Brookings brought out bug-loving kids of all ages – and adults – to check out our six-plus legged friends Saturday.
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BROOKINGS – The second annual Insect Festival at McCrory Gardens in Brookings brought out bug-loving kids of all ages – and adults – to check out our six-plus legged friends Saturday.
Above, dressed like the bugs they like, adults and kids took part in the insect costume parade.
Below 1, Ben and Amanda Quam look on as their daughter Olivia, 8, looks for western corn rootworm larvae in the exhibit put on by the USDA lab north of Brookings.
Below 2, Gabby Lundgren, whose father Jonathan Lundgren owns and operates Blue Dasher Farms, a research and demonstration facility about 20 miles north of Brookings, shows off a friendly but hairy and scary-looking Honduran curley-haired tarantula.
Below 3 and 4, a Blue Dasher Farms doctoral student shows off a Madagascar cockroach.
Below 5, Julie Steen from Dakota Nature Park helped kids capture, tag and release Monarch butterflies.
Other hands-on events included: eating edible insects; assembling-an-arthropod contest; games; a bouncy house; insect education; and an insect photo contest.
Christina Lind-Thielke, McCrory assistant gardener and education coordinator, said the event’s popularity was enough to schedule the third annual festival for the Saturday after Labor Day 2019.
