The next meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club will be held Tuesday, May 10 at 7:15 pm in the Harvard University Herbarium seminar room. Piotr Naskrecki will present a talk entitled Katydids of South Africa: An Exploration of a Nearly Unknown Fauna. Piotr Naskrecki has traveled the world investigating invertebrate biodiversity, capturing beautiful images of the natural world and studying katydids. Dr. Naskrecki will address the club to discuss his NSF-funded orthopteroid survey work in South Africa. The talk will include a biogeographical and historical overview of the country’s katydid fauna and highlight some of the interesting species radiations that have been uncovered. The meeting location information may be accessed at www.huh.harvard.edu/visiting/. To see examples of Dr. Naskrecki’s work, log on to www.insectphotography.com. His photo of a pink-eyed katydid is seen below.
