News: insects
Explore edible insects at free SA pop-up events
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
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
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).
On a mission to discover unknown ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn species
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
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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