• The real Tinkerbell: don’t mess with these tiny fairy wasps, The Conversation, 4 July 2019
• No Simple Answers for Insect Conservation, American Scientist, May-June 2019
• Nature’s Sugar Shack, Wildlife Australia, Spring 2018
• Wasps, aphids and ants: the other honey makers, The Conversation, 7 September 2018
• Beneficial arthropods in pome fruit and almond orchards, Australian Tree Crop Magazine, June/July 2018
• The farmer wants a hive: inside the world of renting bees, The Conversation, 23 May 2018
• Science community blogs: recognising value and measuring reach, LSE Impact Blog, 16 February 2018
• Ecosystem services: it’s not all about the dollars, Remember The Wild, 9 October 2017
• Putting our native pollinators in the spotlight, Dubbo Weekender, 18 November 2016.
• Birds, bees and bugs: your garden is an ecosystem and it needs looking after, The Conversation, 27 September 2016
• Neonicotinoids linked to wild bee and butterfly declines in Europe and US, The Conversation, 17 August 2016
• Out There: Beyond the birds and the bees, Wildlife Australia, Winter 2016 [blog post]
• The dangers of separating science and environment, Ensia, 13 August 2015
• Single-crop farming is leaving wildlife with no room to turn, The Conversation, 14 May 2015
• Lost in a floral desert, Wildlife Australia, Autumn 2015 (volume 52:1). [pdf: Lost in a floral desert Saunders] This piece also appears in Best Australian Science Writing 2015 Anthology, New South Books
• Serious about saving the bees? Time to rethink agriculture, grist.org, 15 October 2014
• Scientific Evidence: what is it and how can we trust it?, The Conversation, 3 July 2013
• Neonicotinoid ban eases the stress on honeybees, The Conversation, 30 April 2013
• Modern agriculture is stressing honeybees: let’s go native, The Conversation, 22 February 2013
• Re-thinking science education, ACEL Online Newsletter, 5 September 2011
• Science education the key to a better public debate, The Conversation, 10 August 2011

Co-authored

• Scientists fear insect populations are shrinking. Here are six ways to help (with David Yeates, Katja Hogendoorn), The Conversation, 5 December 2019
• The battle against bugs: it’s time to end chemical warfare (with Lizzy Lowe, Cameron Webb, Tanya Latty), The Conversation, 18 February 2019
• Why a wetland might not be wet (with Deborah Bower & others), The Conversation, 18 October 2018
• The secret agents protecting our crops and gardens (with Lizzy Lowe), The Conversation, 11 May 2018
• ‘Agricultural Beescapes’ (Chapter 3, with Saul Cunningham & Romina Rader) in Australian Native Bees, AgGuide via NSW Department of Primay Industries
• Goodies v baddies? Why labelling wild animals as ‘pests’ or ‘friends’ is holding farming back (with Gary Luck, Rebecca Peisley, Romina Rader), The Conversation, 18 March 2016
• Not just bees: the buzz on our other vital insect helpers (with Romina Rader, Saul Cunningham) The Conversation, 26 January 2016
• Nature – how do I value thee? Let me count the ways, (with Gary Luck) Wildlife Australia, Autumn 2015 (volume 52:1) [pdf: Valuing nature Luck & Saunders March 2015-1]
• Why we need nature’s services, (with Gary Luck) Sustaining the Nation, January 2014

TV, Radio and Podcasts

• Are there fewer bugs hitting my windscreen? – ABC Newcastle,24 Septmeber 2019
• Are robots the answer to our disappearing bees? – ABC New England North West, 18 June 2019
• Ecosystem services vital though not always obvious: Science Show – ABC Radio National,  June 2019
• Honey makers: Counterpoint – ABC Radio National, 24 September 2018
• Are insects facing extinction?: Roundtable – TRT World, 6 June 2018
• Working Bees: Radio Adelaide, 27 May 2018
• Insect Armageddon!!?: Science Friction – ABC Radio National, 20 May 2018
• Ep. 41. Pollinators, Bond films and ecosystem services: In Situ Science, 22 January 2018