GEORGINA BINNS

Dr Georgina E. Binns has been a bit obsessed with invertebrates and museums since her
immature life stages – she was frequently found to co-habit at night with snails and
millipedes and used to sulk profusely when pulled out of the old entomology hall displays at the Australian Museum in Sydney. She has since leaned into these interests and chose a PhD topic where she could hang out in museums and touch insects as much as she pleased.

Georgina graduated with a PhD at Macquarie University in 2024 where she studied the
variation found in warning signals in day-flying Amata moths and how that variation in both colour and chemical signals impacts on predation by bird predators. During this research, she found a great love of teaching and tutored various undergraduate units at both Macquarie and the University of Sydney. She hopes to one day be given enough funding and time to work on a revision of Amata moths in Australia as she is still extraordinarily fond of these charismatic little moths.

Georgina was lucky enough to land a job with the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in 2025 as a Biosecurity Entomologist. She is passionate about conservation,
science communication and citizen science, systematics and taxonomy, and behavioural
ecology and predator defences.