Projects
Wasps and Hornets
If you’re one of the millions of people across the world who are afraid of wasps (or yellowjackets as they’re known in the USA), and hornets (their bigger and scarier relatives), then this is the site for you!
Even if you’re not particularly frightened of being stung, you almost certainly find wasps irritating when they make a nuisance of themselves at a picnic, in the pub or café garden, or at any outdoor event in the summer.
Having researched the alarm behaviour of wasps for his PhD, Dr Ben Aldiss is an expert on the two commonest species in the UK – the ones that cause us so much distress on warm summer’s days. He can also advise on the invasive species, including the Median Wasp and the Asian Hornet.
Wildlife Journalism and Broadcasts
With his degree in ecology, coupled with a lifetime of interest in wildlife, Ben has written numerous articles on British and European natural history, with an emphasis on the interaction of wild plants and animals with agriculture. He has also appeared on local and national radio.
In the 1990s, whilst Head of Biology at the British School of Brussels, he was Wildlife Correspondent for The European newspaper and The Bulletin – Belgium’s English language weekly magazine, aimed at the international community.
Having taught Biology in senior schools for 34 years, in addition to Conservation Management and Animal Physiology at university level, his ambition is to get the teaching of local wildlife and agriculture into the National Curriculum.
To this end, he wrote seven cover articles for the Times Educational Supplement magazine and set up two long-running projects to get schoolchildren out of the classroom and onto farms, to see with their own eyes how wildlife and agriculture could go hand in hand. He has also advised the Examination Board OCR on their forthcoming Natural History GCSE.
Wildlife Articles
- UK National Papers
- Times Educational Supplement
- The European
- Norfolk Magazine
World Agriculture
- The importance of education
- Farming, forestry and fisheries
- Background to the journal
- World Agriculture
BBC Broadcasts
- BBC Norfolk 'Gudgin's Guest'
- A to Z of Norfolk Wildlife
- BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live
- Sand Dunes and Salt Marshes
Lectures
- Topics
- Cunard and P&O cruise ships
- Talking With Experience
- Public and Zoom lectures
HLF Projects
- Butterfly Conservation
- Marine Biological Association
- Bat Conservation Trust
- Essex Wildlife Trust
