Creepy Crawlies
This insect is famous for glowing in the dark during summer nights using bioluminescence.
What is a firefly (or lightning bug)?
These flying mammals use echolocation to navigate the camp night sky and can eat thousands of bugs an hour.
What is a Bat?
If you get a rash from a plant with shiny leaves in groups of three in the PA woods, you probably touched this.
What is Poison Ivy?
This is the process plants use to turn sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.
What is Photosynthesis?
This is the name of our home galaxy, which looks like a bright, cloudy band of stars stretching across a truly dark PA night sky.
What is the Milky Way?
This invasive insect with polka-dotted wings is a major pest right now, and you should squish it on sight.
What is a Spotted Lanternfly?
This large rodent is known as nature's engineer because it cuts down trees to build dams and lodges.
What is a Beaver?
Pennsylvania is home to only two venomous snakes. Name at least one for 20 points and both for double points.
What are the Rattlesnake and Copperhead snake?
You can tell the exact age of a fallen tree by counting these on its stump.
What are its rings?
This famous constellation looks like a giant cup with a handle and can be used to locate the North Star from your camp cabin.
What is the Big Dipper (or Ursa Major)?
This tiny, eight-legged arachnid transmits Lyme disease and is the main reason we do "checks" after our hikes. (BE SPECIFIC)
What is a Deer tick?
Animals like owls and raccoons that sleep during the day and are active at night are known by this term.
What is nocturnal?
This famous 2,190-mile hiking trail passes right through Pennsylvania and K'far goes on this trail.
What is the Appalachian Trail?
If you are lost in a dense PA forest, you can look for this fuzzy plant, which usually grows on the north side of tree trunks because it prefers shade and moisture.
What is Moss?
Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania is famous worldwide for having "Dark Sky" status, meaning it has almost none of this man-made issue that blocks out the stars.
What is light pollution?
This giant, scary-looking arachnid doesn't build webs; it hunts for bugs at night and is famous for carrying its babies on its back. (BE SPECIFIC)
What is a Wolf Spider?
If you see a bird of prey with a white head and tail soaring over the camp lake, it is most likely this species.
What is a Bald Eagle?
This type of wood or small twig is what we look for first to build a fire because it catches easily.
What is kindling?
This sugary fluid inside trees is tapped in the late winter to create a sweet topping for pancakes.
What is tree sap?
When hiking, these are the painted colored rectangles on tree trunks used to mark a trail so hikers don't get lost.
What are trail blazes?
While this amphibian starts life in PA streams, it spends its teenage years living on land as a bright neon-orange color before returning to the water as an adult.
What is a Newt?
This hiss-happy nocturnal creature is famous for being North America's only native marsupial, meaning the mothers carry their babies in a pouch.
What is a Opossum (or Possum)?
This is Pennsylvania’s state tree, and its fine, flat needles make great natural bedding in a survival shelter.
What is the Eastern Hemlock?
These feathery-leaved plants found in damp PA woods don't use seeds or flowers to reproduce; instead, they use microscopic spores, just like they did back when dinosaurs walked the Earth.
If your camp group gets lost on a night hike, you can find your way north by looking for this star. (BE SPECIFIC)
What is Polaris?