Dad and I flew up to St. Louis for a week. I was attending the Entomological Society of Americas annual conference. We arrived a few days early and enjoyed some old haunts in the area. I went to City Museum twice and also to the St. Louis Zoo to see the Insectarium.
The conference was epic. I really had a fun time attending various outreach programs, speakers and seminars. I absolutely loved the Linnaean Games! It was wonderful to cheer on UF and see them win this year.
One of the programs I attended we worked on building this giant ant out of paper. We had it hanging from strings that were tossed over the rafters. After quite a lot of work and near completion we were instructed that we had to dismantle our creation due to some rules violation. I guess no one every asked permission or if they did, asked the wrong person.
This conference made me fairly solid in my future path that I for sure want to study entomology. I am still stuck on what my focus will be. I really enjoy the outreach part of it, teaching others what I know but also the collection and research end of it. I hope to continue to go to these conferences so that I can continue to be exposed to more in this field.
City Museum Fun 
Snowflakes with Ms. Marian 
Cold day means warm fire 
SMOREs at City Museum 
St. Louis Zoo Insectarium 
More zoo fun 
Back at City Museum 
I loved this sculpture 
Tunnels 
Caves 
Convention! 
Groovy RED shoes 
One of my outreach programs 
Fiesty troublemakers 
All that’s left after fire code violations occurred 
I painted with black fly larva 
My Haul… 
My new vinagaroon 
Back to school…
