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Bugs of Alberta

John Acorn
john_acorn Photo JOHN ACORN is an impassioned and critically acclaimed science educator, well known among the general public as host of television's The Nature Nut, a science education program that has aired on Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and numerous other networks around the world. He has authored many popular books on nature subjects, particularly on his favourite subjects of entomology and paleontology, and has worked as a museum consultant, display designer, writer and interpreter.

Ian Sheldon
ian_sheldon Photo IAN SHELDON is an accomplished artist, nature illustrator and ecologist, with a degree in ecology from Cambridge University. His studies have taken him around the world-throughout North and South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and South Africa.