Photos from our Deep Look Halloween Screening and Party! (Patreon)

We kicked off the 2018 Bay Area Science Festival in San Francisco, October 26, 2018, with a special screening of five Halloween themed Deep Look episodes.

The producers and scientists shared harrowing tales of how they captured the fascinating imagery for some of Deep Look's creepier creature videos, including black widows, flesh-eating beetles, owls, ticks and whispering bats. Plus, we had 3 kinds of live bats, crawling ticks and hungry flesh-eating beetles come by for a visit!

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Kicking things off was Katherine Nielsen, the Co-Director of the Science & Health Education Partnership at UCSF which runs the Bay Area Science Festival.

A packed house of almost 100 guests watches our flesh-eating beetles episode in larger-than-life 4K resolution.

Here are the beetles & larvae themselves, Dermestes vulpinus.

And their preferred food - desiccated animal remains, which Terri Barclay, Museum Preparator at the UC Museum of Vertebrate Zoology referred to as 'skeleton jerky."

Yours truly, Deep Look Series Producer Craig Rosa serving as emcee for the evening.

A spooky (though not anatomically correct) skele-crow keeps watch over our merch table. We gave away a ton of t-shirts and stickers!

Fairly typical reactions to seeing 20-foot-tall deer ticks.

Corky Quirk, Executive Director of Northern California Bats, a nonprofit that rescues, rehabilitates and releases bats, with one of her flying furry friends. If I had to guess, I'd say this was a Pallid Bat, but I would want to confirm.

In case the bats got hungry, Corky thoughtfully brought snacks.

 Dr. Kerry Padgett, Supervising Public Health Biologist at the California Department of Public Health, taking questions about tick safety from Deep Look Producer, Gabriela Quirós.

Here's Gabi (L) in conversation with Terri (R) about her career path leading to becoming a museum preparator.

Gordon Lau, Curatorial Assistant at the UC Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, presented on the remarkable adaptations owls have hunting with incredible stealth.

It was so great to see all of you! Can't wait to do this again. It was a lovely (if slightly squirmy) evening.