FROM LEFT, North Yarmouth Academy students Sadie Porch, Geneviere Vaillancourt, Nell Rohde and Southern Maine Community College teacher Megan McCuller examine an arthropod found in Merrymeeting Bay on Tuesday during a macroinvertebrates presentation. The fall educational event held annually at the Merrymeeting Bay Wildlife Management Area by Friends of Merrymeeting Bay drew 125 fourth-grade students from Bowdoinham, Bowdoin and Woolwich elementary schools and North Yarmouth Academy and 40 presenters, volunteers and chaperones.

A STUDENT attending Bay Day on Merrymeeting Bay in Bowdoinham on Tuesday found this praying mantis, resting on the hand of Southern Maine Community College teacher Megan McCuller.

EVA WILLIAMS, a fourth-grade student at North Yarmouth Academy, handles a crayfish found during a field ecology session held Tuesday in Bowdoinham.