Dr Laurence Mound
Laurence has been called a peripatetic entomologist. After postgraduate study in London, he went to Trinidad for one year, Nigeria for two years and Sudan for three years, before joining the staff of London’s Natural History Museum. In 1967, he visited Australia for a year, and over the next 30 years he studied insects in many different countries. When Laurence retired, he moved to Australia as an Honorary Fellow at CSIRO. His speciality is the order Thysanoptera, the thrips – their biology and identification. Although small, their biology is interesting and varied, whether as plant virus vectors, pollinators, gall-inducers, predators or fungus-feeding colonial insects. You can find out more about them here.