Steve Connor will be speaking at How Insect Are We?, the keynote symposium of Pestival, a festival celebrating insects in art, and the art of being an insect. The symposium takes place at Zoological Society of London, London Zoo, Regent’s Park at 7.00 on Thursday 3rd September. It is chaired by Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist, with other contributions from Stanford University biologist Deborah Gordon, the world’s leading ant specialist, engineer and designer Natalie Jeremijenko and Simon Laughlin, Professor of Neurobiology in the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, an expert on the insect brain and vision. Tickets are £10, from http://pestival.org/symposium/