Nick Baker
Nick is amazed he has succeeded in turning his childhood obsession into an actual career!
His聽passion for wildlife began as a small boy when he would spend his days over-turning rockeries and trampling his mum鈥檚 prize nasturtiums in search of new specimens of spiders, ladybirds, frogs and toads which he鈥檇 ram into buckets and ice-cream tubs and take home to stock his jam jar zoo.
He even constructed an entire butterfly house using hard earned cash from his paper round, not to mention a clandestine production line of tarantula and silk moths under his bed!
He now spends much of his time trying to persuade the next generation of young naturalists to do the same.
Whilst studying Biology at the University of Exeter he was recruited by Dr. Clive Betts to help set up a youth project called 鈥楾he Bug Club鈥� for the Royal Entomological Society of London and set about taking over the university greenhouses to breed stick insects and other exotica for shows and school tours.
Taking on his new persona as 鈥楾he Bug Man鈥� he began to contribute on TV and radio, including stints on C91热爆's and Channel 4's Big Breakfast.
He has also written several books and is currently advising a toy manufacturer on the design of their wildlife watching kits!
He claims to have fallen in love with the 鈥榣umps and bumps' of Devon, and now lives in Dartmoor National Park with his long suffering wife Ceri, daughter Elvie, a psychotic parrot called Thomas, and an expanding menagerie of other weird and wonderful creatures.
