Welcome to Part 16 of my something-part series “Better Know a Speaker.” Today’s speaker: Bug Girl, the fighting entomologist!

Bug_girl has a PhD in Entomology. Her bug research involves using pheromones to try to control insect populations without pesticides. Essentially, she makes male bugs horny, and then prevents them from mating. (Please don’t extrapolate from that more that is warranted.)

After a decade or so as a professor, she decided to jump the academic ship and went on to be a dot.com designer, web mistress, forensic consultant, and general attention whore. She posed in the First Skepchick Calendar in a corset.

She is now back at a University in the Midwest, giving students (mostly) helpful advice. She enjoys chocolate and intelligent conversations, and is rather turned off by mullets and NASCAR (but then, who isn’t?). She frequently guest-posts at Skepchick, and writes Bug Girl’s Blog, where she is sorry, but she can’t identify an insect for you, so don’t ask.

As always, there’s more to come!

–Speaker Conjurer Don

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