Spiders, bats, rats, and similar creatures of horror movies and dark passageways are found at the best and scariest Haunted Houses and parties at Halloween.  In regards to patterns in nature, it would be unlikely to see some of these frightening critters alive and awake on Halloween.  Normally, bats would be hibernating or migrating to a warmer climate in order to live through the winter and many varieties of spiders will have laid eggs and died by the time the weather gets cooler.  Now, of course, in sunny Southern California you never know… (cue favorite horror movie music.)

Most of us prefer to be surrounded by the plastic or paper variety of insects and rodents at our parties…I mean really, who wants to share their Halloween treats with some critter, or anyone else for that matter?  Because of that, I wanted to introduce you to some of the creepy crawly critters we carry here at Shinoda’s.  Check out the links to the right for some of our online items and come on into the store to see what else we have.  Remember we only have about 20% of our overall store inventory online.

Thanks to Science & Nature Suite 101 for their article on Halloween Nature Myths, you can read more information at www.suite101.com/scienceandnature.