Holy Slug!

Meet Limax maximus," the great gray slug. This is the biggest slug species in Kentucky. This guy had his head tucked in for fear of my boys :) They can actually get up to 20cm long!

Reptile Expo

I think this is our fourth time going to this Reptile Expo. It's so fun to be able to see these animals up close! I love how the friendly the sellers are with curious children.

This guy is a blue-tongued skink. I tried to get a picture of his tongue (he kept sticking it out!) but I am just too slow.

We loved these bearded dragons!  They were so chill in their little containers. They happily let us pet them!

Below: This is a tegu- he was HUGE! 

And finally, my favorite- the BABY chameleons! This guy was so tiny, smaller than my pinky finger. I could have taken one home (if we had space in our lives for another project!)

Not pictured: an awesome Iguana, tons of snakes, geckos, the cutest axolotls, and more!

An awesome old tree stump!

Today at Cherokee Park we found a gold mine! Check out this awesome decomposing old tree stump! It crumbles to the touch. Of course we had to poke at it and see what was inside!

Below: See the exposed middle? That part was still really hard!

We discovered some amazing critters. Below: This is a flat bark beetle larva:

When he grows up, he will be a beetle! How cool is that!

Below: We think this is a superworm.

He has darker parts on the front and back compared to the mealworms we feed Rex.

Below: a centipede.

These are creepy buggers! And, yes, they do bite, though it is rarely dangerous.

Also, they are predators. This zippy little guy was probably hunting while he was in this log.

We found tons of small black ants, and a few large ones too!

Plenty of eggs, too!

The roly-polys LOVED this log.

Scientific name: Armadillidium vulgare