Lecturing
I lecture around the country about:
The Amazing Lives of Insects,
Biodiversity Conservation,
Fatal attraction: Blister beetle larvae practice mass deception in the Mojave Desert,
Insects: Ambassadors of Biodiversity,
The History of Insect Zoos Around the World,
Pollination Partners: The chemical attraction between plants and insects.
All my lectures are drawn from my field research and travel around to world to explore nature first hand in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, Borneo, peninsula Malaysia, India, Madagascar, Ghana, Belize, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Trinidad, Panama and Peru, from the wetlands of the Pantanal in Brazil to the deserts of Namibia and the American southwest.
Invited Lectures
National Geographic Society, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, National Wildlife Habitat Council, California Academy of Sciences, Entomological Society of America, American Association of Museums, Society of American Zoologists, National Association for Interpretation, University of California Berkeley, University of California Riverside, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, The Arboretum in Flagstaff, the California Native Plant Society, Oakland Zoo and many others.
The Insect Discovery Lab
The Insect Discovery Lab is the largest and most well respected hands-on outreach program for schools on insects and biodiversity conservation in Northern California, conducting over 800 programs annually. We take live insects and other arthropods out to schools in the greater San Francisco Bay area. The Insect Discovery Lab is a program of awarding winning SaveNature.Org.
Press: On Air Media
Television:
ABC World News Tonight, with Peter Jennings
David Attenborough’s BBC series “Life in the Undergrowth” Segment 4: Intimate Relations
Quarks and Quirks radio ”Blister Beetle Deception‘ (Canadian Broadcasting Radio Corp.)
Harry O’s The Green Hour
Backyard Bugs with Leslie Saul on Bay Area Backroads with Doug McConnell: KRON 4 TV
Home and Garden Television: Grow It!
Local Television:
ABC, NBC, CBS, KTVU, KPIX, Evening Magazine, Channel 7 News (feature segment), Dallas Morning News, Channel 2, Bob McKenzie (feature segment), The Morning Show, Dr. Dean Adell, KGO Contact 1-2-3
Radio:
BBC World News, Voice of America
Science in Action
Ask the Naturalist
Environmental News Network
Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me show on NPR.
Print Media
Periodicals:
Nature 2000, National Geographic 2009, 2006, 1994, The London Times, BBC Wildlife Magazine, New York Times, Newsweek, Discover, Discovery News, United Press International, The Independent, London, Los Angeles Times, Science News, The Daily Telegraph, Science Daily, The New Scientist, The Irish Times, The South German News, La Figuero, Scientific American, Science et Vie, Montreal Gazette, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, National Post, Canada, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Vancouver Sun, National Wildlife Federation, NewsDay, East Valley Times, Arizona, The Northern Echo (the Southwest), Scrips Howard News Service, Florida Today, Tulsa World, Highlight Magazine.
Natural History, September 2011,Vol. 119, No. 8, pp 14-19, p18 in “Bugback Riding: Transportation for the masses” by Michael Ulyshen.
National Geographic Magazine, August 2009, Vol 216:No 2 pp 71-77,p 76 in “The Art of Deception” by Natalie Angier, 2006, 1994
Nature “To Catch a Bee”, September 12 2006 Vol 443:7108 p155
Science World, March 12, 2007 Vol 63:11 p 21
Newsweek, Poland 2006
National Wildlife"Hatching a Dramatic Plot," p. 12 October/November 2000
Books (with summaries of my research):
2010 Keeping the Bees: Why all bees are at risk and what we can do to save them by Laurence Packer, 2010
2010 Insect Cuticular Hydrocarbons: Biology, biochemistry and chemical ecology, eds. A. Bagneres-Urbany and G. Bloomquist, Cambridge University Press
2006 Life in the Undergrowth by David Attenborough
2006 The Other Insect Societies by James T. Costa, 2006
In press: Sensory Ecology, Behaviour and Evolution by Martin Stevens
Online Media
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