Il Professor Seirian Sumner che ha dato il suo discorso intitolato 'perché le vespe materia', sul nostro palcoscenico del pianeta a New Scientist Live 2022
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Data acquisizione:
8 ottobre 2022
Ubicazione:
ExCeL London, One Western Gateway, Royal Victoria Dock, London, E16 1XL
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There's a lot more to wasps than your stripy picnic friend: wasps matter to you and the world. There are five times more species of wasps than bees; there are wasps that have sex inside plants; there are wasps that turn cockroaches into zombies. Wasps taught us how to make paper; wasps are architects, guardians of microorganisms, invaders, pollinators, seed dispersers and predators. They are nature's pest-controllers; their endless forms are windows into evolution's most remarkable inventions; they are pharmacists; they might even hold a cure for cancer. Join Seirian Sumner on a journey into the secret world of wasps guaranteed to blow your mind. Seirian Sumner is a behavioural ecologist. Her work research sits at the interface of behavioural ecology, biodiversity and conservation. She uses a combination of field ecology and genomic techniques to address questions about how and why animals live in societies. She is especially interested in social wasps, and is working hard to raise the profile of these ecologically important insects, among both scientific and lay communities. As part of these efforts, she co-founded the Big Wasp Survey in 2017 ' a citizen science project designed to engage the public with the diversity and importance of social wasps in their back yard.
