May 19

Free Lecture - The Beetles of San Diego County

1-2:30pm
Santa Ysabel Store & Backcountry Visitor Center
30275 Highway 78, Santa Ysabel, CA 92070

A discussion by Robyn Waayers will include the following topics

• What ARE beetles?
• Beetle diversity and abundance
• Beneficial, harmful and neutral beetle species.
• A sampling of our local beetles: the beetle species of the San Diego County mountains and points west, and the San Diego County deserts.
• Local introduced (non-native) beetles, including the Gold-spotted Oak Borer.
• Tips on how to observe and study beetles.
• The future for beetles

Robyn Waayers is a local community college instructor of biology and has studied beetles as a serious avocation since 2001. She has discovered several beetle species new to California over the past several years, and is a regular contributor to Bugguide.net. She also has her own beetle web site Beetles of the Cuyamaca Mountains.

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