Many of us naturalists, I believe, have been in love with nature since childhood. My question is this, what did you love doing with nature as a kid? I grew up catching fireflies and grasshoppers, and raising butterflies with those mail-order caterpillar kits. My siblings and I also threw pebbles in…

Growing up in a city, there wasnt too much access to a lot of nature areas, however I would frequent the school library for books about animals (especially dinosaurs at the time). Even though I couldnt read all the words I would just look over the pictures and compare them all together, organizing …

I also grew up in a city but was lucky enough to be in a city that also has The Bronx Zoo (WWF), NY Botanical Gardens, Museum of Natural History, NY Aquarium etc. I was enrolled in zoo camp as a little one and it definitely fostered a serious respect for all things conservation and research. In ad…

[image] bluebird81: My siblings and I also threw pebbles in the air at night to make the bats swoop down We did that too! (USA, North Carolina)

[image] janetwright: My siblings and I also threw pebbles in the air at night to make the bats swoop down We did that too! (USA, North Carolina) We also did this in the schoolyard at night (Victoria, BC, Canada) I was also fortunate enough to grow up in the city but close to a park with 7…

Most of my childhood nature experience was from books. Despite being very interested in wildlife from childhood, I didn’t get seriously into the outdoors until college. As a kid I read a lot of nature books and magazines (Ranger Rick, National Geographic World), devoured facts about animals, and lov…

We’ve never hit a bat, to the best of my knowledge. We always threw them below the bats, so they’d swoop down.

When I was little my family would go to a property owned by relatives which had a pond and lots of nature areas. I really really enjoyed catching garter snakes, crayfish and all kinds of species of frogs there. We were probably slightly cruel with how many frogs we’d catch. You’d also have to watch …

I grew up in the suburbs of Fort Worth. So I had access to both the Fort Worth Zoo( https://www.fortworthzoo.org/ ) and the Fort Worth Botanical garden( http://www.fwbg.org/ ) which just this year is becoming a pay to enter facility. Surprisingly, Fort Worth’s Zoo is a better, by several different acc…

I spent most of elementary school living on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and would often catch garter snakes and the occasional frog, follow bumblebees around, and make temporary terrariums out of peanut butter jars for the grasshoppers I could find in our yard. I remember having a cou…

I come from Africa, and the list is long. But the best was rescuing some river terrapin eggs that got raided and replanted them in a ceramic pot and watered them for about 3 months, I managed to hatch 36 of those cute little critters.

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