An article in the May-June 2014 issue of Audubon Magazine profiles Associate Professor John Pickering and his “years-long obsession with small flying insects.”

In her story, Audubon editor Rene Ebersole describes Pickering’s lifelong fascination with the natural world, as well as his work in creating DiscoverLife.org, an online portal that allows scientists, students, and amateur naturalists to contribute photographs and information to an enormous database of natural history knowledge. Read the story online here: “Come on Over to the Dark Side,” Moth-lover Urges Birders