Michael Samways has always loved nature, growing up in rural England, and doing hisPhD at London University. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and is a Fellow of Royal Society of South Africa, and Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
Insects are fundamental to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems. They permeate all aspects of these ecosystems, chewing and pooing, pollinating, seed spreading and affecting ...
Humans like to think that they rule the planet and are hard wired to do so. But our stewardship has been anything but successful. The last major extinction event, 66 million years ago, wa...
