Dow Gardens: Inspiring a New Generation of Entomologists

摘要

I was a child who noticed bugs. As a kindergartener waiting for the bus one fall day, 1 remember being so distracted by a praying mantis eating a field cricket; 1 didn't notice the bus arrive. My mother will tell you stories of me collecting jars-full of box elder bugs. One summer I learned to track katydids down by their sound, and filled my dad's greenhouse with them. I didn't realize they were polyphagous herbivores and that his tropical plants might be a preferred host!