28th June 2013
FOLLOWING a successful visit by Nick Wadham and his snakes in April, Bugfest returned to Crewkerne Library last week with a collection of crawling beasts.
There were two reasons for the visit – to educate families about the species which play an important part in the ecology of the African rainforests, and to introduce the children’s “Creepy House” summer reading challenge, which will run over the summer holidays.
Children are invited to work their way through three floors of fun in the “Creepy House”, discovering its secrets by reading six library books and keep track of the action on a special fold out poster. They will also collect stickers as they go along and receive a medal and certificate on completion of the challenge.
The extra collection of creatures to hold and wonder at attracted and even bigger crowd of children this time. Species on show varied from harmless millipedes and stick insects to the more dangerous scorpions, bird eating spiders and deadly centipede.
The snakes were still a favourite and when the Burmese python came out there was no shortage of volunteers to hold it.
The audience learnt that the large snake, which was only 18 months old, had been rescued with deep burns to its skin. They were told how important it was for people to understand the correct way to keep exotic pets and particularly snakes that will grow ten times their original size.
Bugfest is a community interest company which exists solely to educate the public and is very popular with schools.
The next public event will be a “Make and Meet the Monsters” day on Saturday, June 29th in the Yeovil Liberal Club from 10am to 1pm.
Bugfest will also be at the Crewkerne Lions Fun Day on Saturday, July 21st at Clapton.
PICTURE 1: Lottie Roberston, Sayer Pilton and Victoria Carpenter get close to the bird eating spider.
PICTURE 2 3: Catherine Williams and Ava lisney take turns to wear the Burmese python.
PICTURE 4: The children get up close to a millipede
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