I really enjoy writing about Ecology and entomology, and frequently write for The Department of Educations’ Scan Magazine, The Conversation and have been involved in educational videos, radio interviews and podcast recordings. I have over 100 000 reads on articles written in the Conversation, and have written a mixture of pitched and commissioned articles on a range of topics from bee swarms to TikTok and the Olympics to Floods.
Nearby Nature
One of my great joys, is getting people outside in nature. In collaboration with The Urban Field Naturalist and headspace Bankstown, we create walkshops to encourage people to get outside and do some citizen science
Caitlyn In the News
The Conversation
Scan Magazine, Department Education NSW
Podcasts
Educational Videos
2020 - What Animals are in your backyard?
Radio interviews
ABC Radio interviews
11th September 2024 - South East NSW, Mornings, Dragonflies
10th September 2024 - Sydney, Afternoons, Dragonflies
21st May 2024 - Nationwide, Overnights, Nocturnal Insects
26th April 2024 - Nationwide, Overnights, Insect movement
14th February 2024 - Nationatide, Overnights, Why are bees dying?
27th December 2023 - Nationwide, Overnights, Christmas Beetles
16th November 2023 - Sydney, Mornings, butterfly plagues
31st October 2023 - Nationwide, Overnights, Spooky Insects
1st September 2023 - Sydney, Mornings, Magnificant spiders
28th July 2023 - Sydney, Mornings, Mailing insects
19th July 2023 - Nationwide, Overnights, Top ten insects
13th June 2023 - Nationwide, Overnights, Environments in which insects live
26th April 2023 - Nationwide, Overnights, Entomophagy
14th March 2023 - Nationwide, Overnights, Waggle dances: Nature or Nurture?
7th February 2023 - Nationwide, Overnights, Threatened Species Bake Off
3rd November 2022 - Adelaide, Afternoons, Ask an expert - Why are ants out before it rains
18th October 2022 - Sydney, Termites, Cockroaches and floods
5th April 2022 - Sydney, Millipedes and floods
8th January 2022 - Sydney, Bugs that bite
3rd November 2021 - Sydney, Parasitoid wasps
9th September - Sydney, stingless bees and honey, NSW Statewide broadcast
23rd August 2021 - Sydney, Insects to visit in Lockdown. NSW Statewide broadcast
2021 - Sydney, Olympians versus invertebrates. NSW Statewide broadcast
‘If I was Norman May I’d say the interview was Gold, Gold, Gold! That was so great please have her back’
2021 - Regional Western Australia, Insect Olympics
2021 - Darwin, Comics as educational tools
2021 - Central West, Inernational Bee Day
2021 - Brisbane, Insects and floods
2020 - Central West, How to deal with Bee stings
2020 - Central West, Backyard Science activities
NZ Radio interviews
24th May 2023 - Bee brains
2SER Radio interviews
03 May 2022 - Pollinators
2021 - Educational Comics
2021 - Covid-19 detecting bees
TripleRRR Radio interviews
2020 - 20 minutes 20 Phds
2021 - Impact of floods on insects
Council talks
2022 Parramatta Council - Bee Beahviour (Approx 20 people)
2019 Turramurra Community Garden - Bees in your garden (Approx 20 people)
Public talks
2024 - Probus Mount Colah, 30 people
2023 - Animal Behaviour Live: Impacts of Phantom decoys on bees
2023 Royal Botanic Gardens - pollinator talk to 10 6 year olds
School Visits
2020 Baulkham Hills North Public School, Pollinator talk, 100 students, years 5-6
2023 Hurlstone Park Agriculutural School, International Women’s Day talk, 300 students, years 7-9
2023 Masada College: Speed mentoring in STEM, 20 students
2023 Google Career day
2023 Shoalhaven High School, Unearthing Science, 5 students