Meetings

Speaker: Steve Wilson Topic: Hiding in Plain Site Against an infinite natural backdrop of shapes, colours and textures, the opportunities for animals to evade hungry predators is nearly limitless. Some are hiding in plain sight by blending in with their surroundings. In extraordinary cases, they actually mimic the objects around them. Predators respond by evolving […]

About the speaker: Dr Chris Burwell is the senior Scientist and Curator of Entomology at the Queensland Museum. He has worked as an entomologist at the Queensland Museum since 1995 and specialises in Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) and Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies). He has surveyed ants and Odonata widely in Queensland and is interested in the […]