Super Show!

WOW- hot and exhausted but what a fantastic day yet again at the AES Annual Exhibition and Trade Show www.amentsoc.org.So much to see and far too much temptation to buy! Another outstanding event and a great day to catch up with old  friends as well as make some new. Row upon row of entomology trade stands all packed with equipment, specimens, livestock and reference books. We did not know where to look first! I get far too excited at these events and we all rush around trying to get the other to look at what we have found. The boys bought mantis nymphs, I got carried away with caterpillars and my husband with pinned specimens. Both soppy begging and loud pleading by myself and my eldest son for spiders fell on deaf ears with the other half of the family. We did however get to admire some really beautiful tarantulas. I was able to momentarily ditch the rest of the family to have some deep conversations with various invertebrate organizations and even managed to chat about Gall Wasps at length without the accompanying sighs and yawns from the minor members of the tribe. We all left with more knowledge and slightly less money than when we arrived but very happy at having had the most glorious day out!