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- **Event Name**: What insect-watching can tell us about the evolution of animal behaviour
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 16 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 16 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dr William FosterAbout this EventBehavioural Ecology, the study of the adaptive significance of animal behaviour, has empowered zoologists to tackle some of the fundamental issues of evolutionary biology. Insects, although not always easy to study as individuals in the field, have provided excellent model systems for this area of research.In this talk, I will outline some of the research done by myself and colleagues on the behavioural ecology of insects. I will discuss what a saltmarsh beetle can tell us about the evolution of parental care; what marine water-striders can tell us about selfish group behaviour; what the behaviour of gall-living aphids reveals about the altruism of housework, house-maintenance, and the slaughter of intruders; and how extended parental care by solitary digger wasps shows us the first faltering steps along the route to highly complex social behaviour. Along the way we will visit a saltmarsh in North Norfolk, a mangrove swamp in the Galapagos, the playing fields of Cambridge, a Hill Station in Malaya, and a heathland near Godalming. And we will learn about The Trafalgar Effect, Crozier’s Paradox, and the menopausal aphid glue-bomb.  https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/a621b530-e51b-11f0-97b8-af47e92f9d45-rimg-w1200-h438-dcffffff-gmir.jpg
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- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Yusef Hamied Department of Chemistry, (entrance to lecture theatre, adjacent to the Scott Polar Research Institute)
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