Densey Clyne

Densey Clyne (born Dorothy Denise Bell, 4 December 1922 – 21 May 2019) was an Australian naturalist, photographer and writer, especially well known for her studies of spiders and insects.
Life.
She was born in Risca, Wales, United Kingdom, and moved to Australia in 1936. During World War II she served as a commissioned officer in the Australian Women's Army Service, after a year in the Land Army. She married Peter Clyne (1927–1987) in 1950. At the time she died, Clyne lived in Wauchope, New South Wales.
Achievements.
As a naturalist, conservationist and communicator, Clyne wrote 30 books on natural history subjects, particularly on insects and spiders. She wrote scripts for her own and other television documentaries on natural history, and published numerous papers and articles dealing with invertebrate lives and behaviour in professional journals and popular magazines. She delivered talks and addresses on invertebrate behaviour and the pleasures of insect-watching to schools, adult groups, and professional organisations. She took part in seminars on natural history writing and on wildlife filming, and also acted as a consultant on local wildlife for Australian and overseas television film productions, including several by the BBC Natural History Unit. She also served as a juror at Japan's Environmental Film Festival (1995), and presented regular natural history segments for eight years on Channel 9's "Burke's Backyard" lifestyle show. Densey Clyne was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London.
For her contributions to arachnology, Clyne had two new species of spider named for her.
Print media.
Clyne has written several regular columns on natural history for the print media for:
Scientific papers.
Clyne's scientific contributions included the first detailed description of the net-making behaviour and sperm induction of the spider "Dinopis subrufa", ("Australian Zoologist", 1967); the web structure of the spider "Poecilopachys bispinosa" ("Journal of the Australian Entomological Society", 1973); and a joint paper with D. Rentz, CSIRO Insect Division, on "Anthophiloptera dryas", a new orthopteran genus and species, studied and recorded over several years by Clyne in her Sydney garden ("Journal of the Australian Entomological Society", 1983).
Bibliography.
Books authored or co-authored by Clyne include:
Filmography.
Densey Clyne was involved as researcher, writer, narrator and/or adviser in the following productions, in partnership with cinematographer Jim Frazier: 