NICK

Nick, our resident wildlife expert, is an amateur naturalist who turned a childhood passion for living things into a livelihood.

The proto-naturalist made himself known as soon as he could crawl. It all started off in a fairly normal manner with little to worry about the boy who collected small and unfortunate creatures like spiders, ladybirds, frogs and toads and stuffed them into jam jars, tanks, buckets and ice-cream tubs. It is, after all, a healthy occupation for an eight-year-old.

Whilst at University he met Dr. Clive Betts, who needed a willing slave to help him get an educational youth project off the ground for the Royal Entomological Society of London. This was known at the time as the Y.E.S (Young Entomologists Scheme) but later metamorphosed into a slightly funkier ‘Bug Club’, which is still running to this day.

Now, still known as the ‘bug man’ he enjoys telling stories of these much-misunderstood creatures’ lives.

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