Discover the fascinating facts about spiders in your backyard with Dana Wilde
WHEN: THURSDAY, April 29 AT 6:00PM
WHERE: ZOOM - A LINK WILL BE SENT FOLLOWING REGISTRATION BELOW.
KELT is pleased to welcome, Dana Wilde, author of A Backyard Book of Spiders in Maine.
A perfect opportunity for curious observers and those of us more timid around arachnids to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for the biology, ecology, behavior, and natural history of spiders in Maine.
Dana Wilde lives in Troy, Maine, and writes the Backyard Naturalist column which appears regularly in the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel and occasionally in the Sun Journal newspapers, and originated in years past as the award-winning Amateur Naturalist column in the Bangor Daily News. He has been a college professor, editor, Fulbright scholar, and NEH fellow. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern Maine and doctoral and master’s degrees from Binghamton University, where his doctoral dissertation was recognized as the Distinguished Dissertation in the Humanities and Fine Arts for 1995, in part for its efforts to bridge the “two cultures” of science and the humanities. His writings have appeared in The Maine Entomologist and many popular, literary, and scholarly publications; his books include Summer to Fall: Notes and Numina from the Maine Woods and Nebulae: A Backyard Cosmography. He is a member of the Maine Entomological Society, the International Society of Arachnology, and the National Book Critics Circle.
Eager to get exploring? Check out this article from the Bangor Daily News by Aislinn Sarnacki.