Dr Zoe Davies from the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent will join a supergroup of researchers at the five-day festival.
The Sex & Bugs & Rock ‘n Roll roadshow, championed by the British Ecological Society (BES), is an initiative to take scientific and environmental matters to the general public at popular summer time events.
This year’s event focuses on the Hidden Wonders of Woodlands. Dr Davies will be leading a project within the event to ‘Create your ideal Woodland’ that will also be used to produce a survey on the perception of woodlands, supported by the Durrell Institute for Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University.
The University of Lancaster, University of Bangor and the University of Oxford are also involved and they will all be accompanied by bees, dung beetles, worms and ladybirds to give festival visitors that opportunity to discover unusual woodland ladybirds and astonishing fungi as well as learning about the bacteria living on their festival kit.
Sex & Bugs & Rock ‘n Roll will be in the Green Futures Field at Glastonbury from 21-25 June 2017.
The event can be followed online at www.festivalbugs.org and on Twitter @BESRoadies using the hashtag #festivalbug.