Lila Higgins is a science educator and communicator with 16 years of experience connecting people and nature in museums. After graduating with a B.S. degree in entomology from UC Riverside she worked in a lab rearing parasitoid wasps for use as biological control agents. She soon realized she preferred talking to people about insects and the environment, rather than doing research (aka sucking hundreds of tiny wasps into plastic tubes every day). She ditched the aspirator (the aforementioned sucking tool) and followed her heart. She pursued a Master’s degree in Environmental Education, so she could share her knowledge and passion for insects with the world. In 2008 she began working at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, where she is currently the Manager or Citizen Science. She often speaks about entomology and insect reproductive strategies, in programs such as “Horny Bugs, and other Insex Stories.”