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(Members Only) Hybrid Meeting – Eat, Prey, Love: the secret lives of spiders in Ontario and beyond
Friday, March 17 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
(NATURE LONDON MEMBERS ONLY)
Note that this is a HYBRID meeting with both IN-PERSON and VIRTUAL attendees. Please:
There are far more reasons to be fascinated by spiders than to fear them. In this talk, Dr. Catherine Scott will provide a window into the private lives of spiders, highlighting their remarkable strategies for predation and defense, the critical role that they play in food webs, and their weird and wonderful mating and parenting habits.
Speaker bio:
Dr. Catherine Scott is an arachnologist and behavioural ecologist whose research is focused on the behaviour and communication of black widows and other spiders. She completed her MSc at Simon Fraser University and her PhD at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and she is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill. A former arachnophobe, she is passionate about trying to shift perceptions about these fascinating creatures by engaging in science communication online and in person. She blogs at spiderbytes.org and you can also find her on twitter (@Cataranea), where she is always happy to answer questions about spiders and other arachnids.
Note: Dr. Scott will be in Montreal, using Zoom to deliver her presentation to the Civic Garden Centre screen and sound system.
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