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EdgarOrtega · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 5:03 pm Post subject: Cal Poly Insect Fair--Ponoma, Ca

A highlight of the Annual Cal Poly Pumpkin Festival,
the Insect Fair will take place:

October 17-18th 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

The California Reptile & Invertebrate Society (CRIS) will be exhibiting insects, arachnids, and reptiles
among the other education booths and Invert vendors, including Francisco Torres of SFBATS and SCABIES.

Parking: FREE
Admission to Pumpkin Festival: FREE
Pumpkins from the patch: $5 each ( beach ball size) or 5/$20
Insect Fair: $6 adults; $4 students and children 3-12 years; 2 and under are free!
Pancake Breakfast (Saturday from 8am - 11am): $5 adults, $4 twelve and under
Petting Zoo $1/person, $.50 for cup of food for the critters

http://www.csupomona.edu/~agri/news/pumpkin.shtml

EdgarOrtega · Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:50 pm Post subject:

The fair was a lot of fun, guys. :) We spent the weekend showing inverts and herps, talked to lots of people. It was pretty cool.

I'll post pics, soon!

In the mean time, here's a photo of Sean holding a scorp. that made the cal poly news mentioning CRIS. (with a small typo) lol
http://dailybulletin.mycapture.co...=0&picnum=21&move=B#Image

Ricky and Traci Roach came down to help at Ken's tables and we were lucky enough to share a block of tables with them! It was good fun. :)

Photos to come!
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EdgarOrtega · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:57 am Post subject:

Here are some pics from the SCABIES folk. We were shoulder to shoulder with them on Sat before we moved over to Ken's block on Sunday.

http://scabies.myfreeforum.org/about4243.html&highlight=poly
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balam · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:09 am Post subject:

Good to have seen you there Edgar.
The show was nice, but it was a poor turn-out in my opinion... at least compared to last year. Last year's show was right next to the pumpkin patch and drew in a lot more onlookers, some of those walked away with a newfound knowledge of many critters and many walked away with some critters of their own!

I hope next year we go back next to the pumpkin patch and get a better sized crowd :)

You guys seem to have done a good job, good to see Denise and Sean there as well.

Thank you for coming by Ricky, enjoy your lady parahybana, and it was nice to see all the new things Ken had at the table... too bad he couldn't join us this time around.

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Ricky Ortiz84 · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:48 pm Post subject:

ok here are my pics of the show to many to post again lol
http://calris.org/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1381&posts=1
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balam · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:31 am Post subject:

:lol:

nice pics you got the re Ricky, fine specimen indeed :lol:
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Ricky Ortiz84 · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:06 am Post subject:

EdgarOrtega · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:15 pm Post subject:

Ricky you sure took a monkey butt load of photos. lol

I'll get mine on here when my fatigue and the mountain dew flowing through my veins aren't making my eyeballs expand and constrict constantly...

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UglyKid2 · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:04 am Post subject:

EdgarOrtega · Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:07 pm Post subject:

Ok, funny peoples, here are my photos from the Cal Poly Insect Fair!

Commentary, too!

Check them out. :) Had a great time.

http://www.calris.org/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=1390&posts=1

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