Friday 19th June 2026 – Introducing Award Winning Entomologist & Broadcaster Dr George McGavin.
The Société Jersiaise Entomology and Zoology Section is honoured to host Dr McGavin for his talk What Have Insects Ever Done for Us? a lively exploration of insects’ vital roles and surprising darker side.
Insects are the most diverse and successful group of animals on Earth. They are an essential component of every terrestrial and aquatic food chain- without them the world would be a very different place. But insects have a dark side – they have changed the short course of human history by killing hundreds of millions of people and destroying their crops.
George McGavin studied Zoology at Edinburgh University, followed by a PhD in entomology at Imperial College and the Natural History Museum in London. After 30 years as an academic, mostly at Oxford University, he became an award-winning broadcaster. George is an Honorary Research Associate of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and an Honorary Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College. In 2019 George became the President of the Dorset Wildlife Trust.
Recent books
The Hidden World (2024) Welbeck Hachette
The Good Bug (2024) Michael O’Mara Books
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGavin
This is a ticketed event – please click on the link below or select the QR code in the poster above:
What Have Insects Ever Done For Us? Tickets, Friday, June 19 • 7 PM – 8:30 PM | Eventbrite
