Five Questions with Brian Farrell

A milkweed beetle (Tetraopes pilosus) on its equally fuzzy sand milkweed hostplant (Asclepias arenariad) in the midwestern United States | photo by sangil kim ’15, Ph.D. ’23; student of professor farrell

A milkweed beetle (Tetraopes pilosus) on its equally fuzzy sand milkweed hostplant (Asclepias arenariad) in the midwestern United States | photo by sangil kim ’15, Ph.D. ’23; student of Professor Farrell

Professor Brian D. Farrell was featured in Harvard Magazine's Five Questions. Farrell, a curator of entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, focuses on the coevolution of insects and plants, with a special emphasis on beetles. In the feature, he discusses beetles, biodiversity, and evolutionary change.