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Explore edible insects at free SA pop-up events

Smashed avo bagel with mealworm furikake

Curious about crunching on a cricket, munching on a mealworm or ingesting any other type of insect, but not willing to dive in head-first?

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New citizen science project creates a buzz in the classroom

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A new citizen science project, Insect Investigators, led by the South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Museum and involving the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries, will connect school students with scientists to document their local insect biodiversity and discover insects in their area.

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Echidnas, poop and creepy crawlies

Echidna in the wild

Leading science communicators from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide will join forces with a local echidna ecologist, to share their expertise in echidnas and insects in a free, interactive workshop on Kangaroo Island, as part of National Science Week (14-22 August).

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On a mission to discover unknown ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn species

Insects image by Gordan Johnson from Pixabay.

Insect expert Dr Erinn Fagan-Jeffries from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s School of Biological Sciences, has thrown her support behind a new mission launched by the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Academy of Science’s Taxonomy ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog, to discover and document all unknown ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn species by 2050.

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School students discover four new species of wasp

One of the four new wasp species discovered and named, Choeras ramcomamorata

Four primary schools in regional South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog have been involved in the discovery and naming of new species of wasp as part of a trial of a new citizen science project led by the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide.

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