Creepy crawlies across continents: why Tanya Latty loves bugs

Every superhero has their origin story, and a superhero of science is no different…

From watching slater bugs and catching non-venomous snakes in her garden just outside Toronto in Canada, to harnessing lizards with palm fronds in the Caribbean, Tanya Latty was always going to study animals.

But it wasn't until an invertebrate zoology class that her "mind exploded" and her passion for entomology became clear.

She went to the Rocky Mountains to study mountain pine beetles for her PhD — where she also accidentally studied bears and cougars up close.

These days...