Janet Baraclough writes
The message
from K spake these timeless words:

In an earlier career, one of my colleagues was a weevil specialist.

Please put us out of our misery :-) What kind of a career employs a
weevil specialist?

Same sort that employed the oligochaetologist that I'm married to ;-)

Taxonomy - the underpinning of all other work on biological organisms -
sorting out what is a distinct species and what is just inter-species
variation,. And how the different species are related to each other. I
used to give them mathematical advice, and got to know a lot of
interesting people - like the chap who kept dead foxes in his garden so
he could study the flies and other creatures feeding on the carcass. And
why would an professional entomologist keep Sarracenia as a hobby?
--
Kay