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Insectarium

Entomologist and museum curator Jessica Ware will introduce us to insects that upend our expectations and a diverse group of scientists who are passionate about the six-legged critters all around us. Forget about pandas–we’re here to make you fall in love with mandibles! The series is produced for PBS by the American Museum of Natural History. (official site)

Funding for INSECTARIUM is provided by the National Science Foundation.

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Jessica Ware, Ph.D., is a curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History and a science communicator whose research focuses on dragonflies. She studies the evolution of behavioral and physiological adaptations in insects, with an emphasis on how these occur in Odonata and Dictyoptera. She is the founder of Entomologists of Color (EntoPOC), which is focused on increasing participation of BIPOC students in entomological societies.

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