The Little Things that Run the World and Why They are the Coolest Critters of All

Name: The Little Things that Run the World and Why They are the Coolest Critters of All
Start: 2025-03-18T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Community Church Unitarian Universalist - New Orleans

Schedule

Tue, 18 Mar, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Community Church Unitarian Universalist - New Orleans | New Orleans, LA

The Little Things that Run the World and Why They are the Coolest Critters of All
Speaker: Zack Lemann
Tuesday, March 18
6:30 p.m. social, 7:00 p.m. program
Community Church Unitarian Universalist, 6690 Fleur de Lis (Lakeview).
Zack Lemann was born and raised in New Orleans and attended Duke University where he earned degrees in both History and Anthropology. He began working for the Audubon Nature Institute in 1992 and has been there ever since. For both the older Insectarium and the recently re-opened one, Zack served as the point person for animal acquisitions and scientific content and also worked on exhibit design ideas. Zack’s current responsibilities as curator include overseeing exhibits and presentation areas using live animals.
With a combination of zoo/museum experience, biology master’s degree coursework from the University of New Orleans, field experience and personal contacts with professionals in various natural history fields, Zack has gained a wealth of information about insects and their relatives. Sharing this knowledge has been a passion of his for over three decades, and Zack is now a requested speaker and presenter at events both in New Orleans and around the United States.
Zack’s primary animal interest is in spiders, which he studied while in graduate school at the University of New Orleans. However, Zack is better known in local circles as a “bug chef.” In addition to speaking about - and cooking - bugs at various Audubon Nature Institute events, he has been on national television programs as well including “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Today,” and segments on Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, and The Food Network, to name a few.
If you ask him a question about bugs, expect an enthusiastic answer…and you better grab a chair!