“It’s easy to forget that human beings form a tiny two-legged minority in an overwhelmingly six-legged world.” Dr. Stephen Marshall. Dr. Marshall will be amazing us with the fascinating world of flies, insects that we tend to abhor and swat. Marshall is a University of Guelph Professor Emeritus, researching the distribution and biology of insects. Stephen Marshall is passionate about bugs. He studies biodiversity and insect species, helps with the naming, describing and classifying newly discovered six-legged creatures. He himself has discovered hundreds of species, several new genera and two new subfamilies over the decades just a fraction of the estimated one to two million species of insects that live on our planet. Dr Marshall is the author of Insects: Their Natural History and Diversity which is considered the best resource anyone looking to identify North American insects could possibly invest in. Here’s an entertaining and informative talk on insect biodiversity… Read more »
Jenn Baici is an ecologist currently completing her PhD at Trent University in the Bowman Lab where she studies the social structure and behaviour of the Eastern Wild Turkey. Prior to this she studied biocontrol of invasive species at the University of Toronto in the Master of Forest Conservation (MFC) program. Jenn’s research interests include avian ecology, nesting behaviour, insect ecology, and human-animal conflict mitigation, although she’s nerdy about anything and everything to do with conservation biology. She hopes to apply her skills and knowledge to promote the conservation and preservation of earth’s amazing biodiversity, particularly undervalued and under appreciated species. Jenn Baici, BSc Hons, MFC (She/Her), PhD Candidate, Trent University Environmental and Life Sciences
Fiona Reid will be telling us about moths that pollinate on Tuesday evening, April 30th at 7:00 P.M. at our usual location in the Seniors Centre on Bythia Street in Orangeville. Fiona Reid has been leading nature tours since 1986, showing ecotourists the mammals and other wildlife of diverse lands from Brazil to Indonesia, and Alaska to Venezuela. An accomplished writer and artist, Fiona is the author and illustrator of A Peterson Field Guide to Mammals of North America. She has written and/or illustrated numerous other guides, including A Field Guide to the Mammals of Central America and Southeast Mexico, Bats of Trinidad and Tobago, The Wildlife of Costa Rica, a Field Guide, The Golden Guide to Bats of the World, Bats of Papua New Guinea, Mammals of the Neotropics (volumes 1-3), and several children’s books. She is a Departmental Associate in Mammalogy at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation… Read more »
