Nature Live: Insects Rule the World

I have a huge backlog of stuff to write about, although this is reasonably recent it is quick to get on here. This is a video of David Nicholson and I doing a Nature Live event at the Natural History Museum called 'Insects Rule the World', perhaps it should have been called 'Cockroaches Rule the World', but never mind!

Insects Rule the World from Ed Baker on Vimeo.

David and I will be doing the talk again on Monday: Insects Rule the World 21/06/2010.

I have details of my past and present talks online: Talks by Ed Baker.

Ed at Isle of Wight Zoo

Me at the zoo last year.

Just to say that I will be at the Isle of Wight Zoo on Wednesday, 27th May 2009 for their Science Week. Just like last year I will be bringing a range of invertebrates (certainly some of my phasmids and cockroaches - but hopefully quite a few more). I will also be just back from Panama and Costa Rica, so can entertain (or bore) you with stories of invertebrates from my travels.


Lamponius portoricensis and Peruphasma schultei - two of the species that I bought along to last year's event.


Milk feeding a tiger.

All photographs by Tracy Dove (IoW Zoo Education Officer).

Typealyzer

I have just put this blog through Typealyzer, and this is what it has to say about me:

"The active and play-ful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities.

The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time."

Blattodea Culture Group

This weekend saw the return of the Blattodea Culture Group to London, with a well attended meeting at the Natural History Museum.

There were four talks/presentations:

Collecting cockroaches in Madagascar (by George Beccaloni)
A film clip of Adrian Durkin's recent appearance on BBC1
An introduction to the new BCG website (by me)
Collecting cockroaches in Borneo (by Phil Bragg)

There was also a livestock exchange, with a number of interesting species changing hands.