Mike Schoonveld

I’m not an entomologist, but I did earn a passing grade in Entomology 101 in college. With more than 5 million insect species in the world, the course didn’t spend much time on any one species.
So most of what I know about insects came the same way I learned fishing, hunting, mowing grass, and grilling hamburgers: on-the-job training. My insect education was mostly practical. If a bug was bothering me, I figured out why, how to avoid it, how to kill it, or how to repel it.

It’s summer, the time of year most outdoor people think about and religiously use sunscreen, mostly because they want keep from being sunburned. More important is each exposure to the sun’s UV rays ups your chances of contracting skin cancer sometime in the future.
As a “skin cancer” survivor, I know. I also know that even though I visit a dermatologist at least every six months, the doctor always spots troubling “pre-cancerous” spots on my face and occasionally on other areas.