Richard Jones (entomologist)

Richard 'Bugman' Jones FRES is a British entomologist. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and has written many books about insects.[1]

Richard Jones (entomologist) portrait

Career

Jones's childhood interest in insects was inspired by his father, who was a botanist. He grew up in the South Downs and the Sussex Weald[2] and was educated at Newhaven Tideway Comprehensive School (now Seahaven Academy) in the early 1970s.[3] At university he studied biology and he then worked as an engineer's assistant on the Lewes Cuilfail Tunnel,[4] and in medical publishing, before moving back into entomology,[5] doing ecological surveys for local councils and English Nature (now Natural England).[6]

He regularly writes for New Scientist,[7] Gardeners' World[8] and BBC Wildlife,[9] as well as appearing on programmes such as Springwatch Unsprung,[10] BBC Radio 4's Home Planet[11] and Natural Histories with Brett Westwood, including the episodes "Louse"[12] and "Dung Beetle".[13]

Books
  • The Beekeepers Bible, with Sharon Sweeny-Lynch, published by Abrams Books in 2011.[17]
  • The Little Book of Nits, with Justine Crow, published by Bloomsbury in 2012.[19]
  • House Guests, House Pests: A Natural History of Animals in the Home, published by Bloomsbury in 2015.[20]
  • Call of Nature, the Secret Life of Dung, published by Pelagic Publishing in 2017.[21]
  • Wasp, published by Reaktion books in 2019.[23]

Honours and awards

Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and of the Linnean Society. He is a past president of the British Entomological and Natural History Society.[24]

Call of Nature was shortlisted for The Bookseller's Diagram Prize for the oddest book title of the year in 2018.[25]

References
  1. "About". Bugman Jones. 2012-01-03. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  2. "Exclusive Feature: Beetles by Richard Jones". newnaturalists.com. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  3. Sites (www.communitysites.co.uk), Community. "1971 - 1972 | CLASS PHOTO | TIDEWAY SCHOOL | EDUCATION | Our Newhaven". www.ournewhaven.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  4. "Memories of a chainman". Bugman Jones. 2012-11-22. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  5. "Extreme insects: Bitten by the bug?". The Independent. 2010-09-07. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  6. Jones, Richard (2002). "TECTICOLOUS INVERTEBRATES A preliminary investigation of the invertebrate fauna on green roofs in urban London" (PDF). Retrieved 5 Feb 2020.
  7. "Beetlemania: How a supergroup scuttled to world domination | New Scientist". www.newscientist.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  8. "Richard Jones - BBC Gardeners' World Magazine". BBC Gardeners' World Magazine. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  9. "Articles by Richard Jones". Discover Wildlife. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  10. "BBC Two - Springwatch Unsprung, 2017, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  11. "BBC - Radio 4 - Home Planet - 4 September 2007". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  12. "BBC Radio 4 - Natural Histories, Louse". BBC. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  13. "BBC Radio 4 - Natural Histories, Dung Beetle". BBC. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  14. "Books | UK Beetle Recording". www.coleoptera.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  15. "Nano Nature". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  16. "Extreme Insects by Richard Jones - Hardcover | HarperCollins". HarperCollins UK. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  17. Beekeeper's Bible Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses.
  18. "Mosquito by Richard Jones from Reaktion Books". www.reaktionbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  19. Bloomsbury.com. "The Little Book of Nits". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  20. Bloomsbury.com. "House Guests, House Pests". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  21. "Call of Nature". Pelagic Publishing. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  22. "Beetles (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 136) by Richard Jones - | HarperCollins". HarperCollins UK. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  23. "Wasp by Richard Jones from Reaktion Books". www.reaktionbooks.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  24. "Richard Jones". ABC Radio National. 2012-11-07. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  25. "The Diagram Prize 2018 shortlist revealed | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
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