The Joy of Insect Watching - Cambridge Local Group
Cambridge Local Group Event: The Joy of Insect Watching
In person/online options available. No need to book to join in person. To join online, please see booking instructions below.
Event details
Meeting point
Main Seminar Room. Please enter through the archway off Downing Street, into the New Museums Site. The David Attenborough Building entrance is up the two sets of steps in front of you and about 30m further on (on the right-hand side).Date
About the event
In this talk, William will discuss the evolution of social behaviour in digger wasps from the lonely heaths of Surrey and in social aphids from the parks of Cambridge and Kuala Lumpur. These aphids are the only insects that have a sterile soldier caste, menopausal grandmothers, and individuals that can move around on the top of spherical liquid marbles constructed from their own excrement!
William Foster was Curator of Insects at the University Museum of Zoology from 1976 – 2017. He studied the behavioural ecology of insects in the field, ranging from beetles in Norfolk saltmarshes to species of Halobates, the only insects to have colonised the open sea.
This is a hybrid talk, with an online option, via Zoom, available alongside the usual in person event.
Please note: If you are joining in person, there is no need to book.
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Booking
Price
£3 for Wildlife Trust BCN members.£4 for non-members.
All proceeds go to the work of the Wildlife Trust BCN.