Presented by Effie Yeaw Nature Center
Join Mike Cardwell for Venomous Bites and Stings, a two-hour online program about the northern California creatures capable of producing medically significant injuries. Mike uses his award-winning photography and extensive experience with venomous creatures to illustrate how to identify dangerous species, avoid their bites and stings, and provide proper first aid. It may surprise you to learn that the deadliest venomous animals in North America are not snakes, spiders, or scorpions – although those will be covered, as well.
Mike Cardwell is a wildlife biologist and former volunteer at Effie Yeaw Nature Center who has been studying, writing, lecturing, and consulting about venomous animals for most of his life. He has authored, edited, and peer-reviewed for a variety of scientific and medical journals and books. Among his many accomplishments are serving on the expert panel that updated the medical treatment guidelines for North American snakebites, earning a graduate degree with a thesis on rattlesnake behavior during drought, and conducting multiple radio telemetry studies of wild rattlesnakes over the past two decades – including one at Effie Yeaw Nature Center (see www.EYNCRattlesnakes.com). Mike is an adjunct researcher with San Diego State University as well as a member of the North American Society of Toxinology and the Wilderness Medical Society, among others.