I’ve recently been appointed Section Editor for the journal Insects (which have just been awarded a new impact factor of 2.769) and have now been asked to act as guest editor (together with Dr Dumas Galvez from the University of Panama and the Smithsonian...
I’m very pleased to have been appointed editorial board member on the open access journal Insect (IF = 2.2) in their Section Board for ‘Other Arthropods and General Topics’. Insects is general journal covering all topics relating to entomology...
I have had the great pleasure of being involved in a study on invertebrates in Gcwihaba cave in Botswana (sadly remotely so far, although I hope to visit the cave one day). The cave is the largest one in Botswana, and relatively well visited by tourists, but...
The black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) is rapidly becoming a very popular agricultural insect since it is easy to farm, does not carry diseases, and can be used to reduce organic waste (by eating it) with the resulting larval or pupal mass then used as a rich food...
I’m currently on Jersey enjoying teaching on the Island Ecology module that forms part of the MSc in Island Biodiversity and Conservation offered by the Jersey International Centre of Advanced Studies and accredited by the University of Exeter. It is especially...
As part of my role of co-director the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education’s Postgraduate Certificate of Ecological Survey Techniques, I get the pleasure of supervising or marking a number of very interesting field projects every year. However,...
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