Growing up, I was always bringing insects into my family’s kitchen to add them to my growing insect collection. All of my Entomology knowledge was self-taught. Honestly, I was obsessed. I would scour the internet for whatever low-quality insect pinning tutorials I could find, check out books at the library, and watch every nature documentary I possibly could. Looking back, I only kept at this because I was hungry for more, not because it was easy to find Entomology Education. This explains why kids have a “bug phase” — they run out of resources.
When I was 7 years old, I was diagnosed with a muscle-wasting condition called Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. This means I slowly lost the ability to walk over a period of several years. This quickly made me start considering how else I could fit bugs into my life. I obviously wouldn’t be a field entomologist in the Amazon, but I knew I could still do something. This is when I realized my future was in Science Education.
