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Insect News 8: Where in the world is Blattella germanica?
Jul 24, 2024
28m 47s
Honey Bees Part 1
Apr 13, 2024
35m 16s
Insect News 7: Toxic Galls, French Bedbugs, and What the Wright Brothers Have To Do With Apiculture
Nov 29, 2023
19m 07s
Pierre Andre Latreille
Jul 3, 2023
21m 41s
Insect News 6: Why insects get caught at lights, the AMNH's new wing, and the LAPD
Jun 1, 2023
19m 09s
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| 7/24/24 |  Insect News 8: Where in the world is Blattella germanica? | The mystery of where the German cockroach originated from has been solved! There's also a new ant species named after Voldemort. In this news episode we cover the aforementioned as well as how mosquitoes can be used for bird feed, how rusty patched bumble bee populations are organized, a New York City bee conservation effort, and more. | 28m 47s | ||||||
| 4/13/24 | Honey Bees Part 1 | Ah the venerable Honeybee. Humanities history with this insect stretches back beyond the written word, even beyond podcasts. This incomprehensible timeframe has left people with a lot of time to figure out many different ways to keep, collect, and utilize honeybees. This is the focus of our first episode on honeybees, where we cover topics like early honey collection methods, the development of beekeeping, and the competing theories around the honeybees evolutionary origins. | 35m 16s | ||||||
| 11/29/23 | Insect News 7: Toxic Galls, French Bedbugs, and What the Wright Brothers Have To Do With Apiculture | Hear about the bedbug infestation terrifying the city of Paris, an interesting new way of detecting heavy metal contamination (hint, if you were planning on eating plant galls in industrial areas, don't), and why there's a journal of apiculture in the Wright Brothers exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museums. | 19m 07s | ||||||
| 7/3/23 | Pierre Andre Latreille | Pierre Andre Latreille, a French entomologist who lived from 1762-1833, is probably best known for having his life saved by a beetle. However there's a lot more to his story, and he went on to make a number of sigificant contributions to the field of entomology ( all thanks to the beetle ). Learn all about this lesser known but important entomologist on this new episode of Insectview. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.en.19.010174.000245 https://www.amusingplanet.co... | 21m 41s | ||||||
| 6/1/23 | Insect News 6: Why insects get caught at lights, the AMNH's new wing, and the LAPD | Get the scoop on why insects fly to light, the bugs at the American Musuem of Natural History's new wing, and what happened to the LAPD officer who was attacked by bees in this new news episode! Sources https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.11.536486v1 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/jessica-ware-insects-american-museum-natural-history.html?searchResultPosition=5 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/gilder-center-natural-history-museum.html http... | 19m 09s | ||||||
| 5/2/23 | The Antarctic Midge | Meet Antarctica's largest native terrestrial animal, the Antarctic Midge, Belgica antarctica. Learn all about it's discovery during the voyage it was named after, it's interesting biology, and tiny genome in this new episode of Insectview! | 12m 20s | ||||||
| 1/4/23 | 2022 in review | New year same Insectview! Tune in to hear our recap of 2022, as well as some plans for the future. | 8m 08s | ||||||
| 12/21/22 | Wooly Bears | If you life in north America, you're almost certainly familiar with the little orange and brown caterpillar called the wooly bear. If you're in the Eastern US you may have even gone to a wooly bear festival! However, the rest of its life cycle is less familiar to most people, a fact we hope to remedy! Tune in to hear about the wooly bear, its mythos, and the celebrations that have sprung up in it's honor! Citations: https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/68/4/557/2645369 https://journal... | 16m 18s | ||||||
| 12/5/22 | Insect News 5: Army ants in amber, ant milk, and a blast from the past | In this episode of insect news hear about a rediscovered rare army ant fossil, a newly discovered milk like substance ants consume, and a selection of insect news stories from the early 20th century. Amber army ant: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221122221254.htm Ant milk: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221130114454.htm | 9m 59s | ||||||
| 11/21/22 | Insect News 4: Playfull bumble bees, mosquito magnets, and unusual CT scans | In this episode of Insect News we look back on the story of bumble bees playing that was all over the news a few weeks ago. We also take a look at why you might be attracting more mosquito bites then other people, and how some researchers used a CT scanner... on a swarm of bees? | 14m 50s | ||||||
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| 11/7/22 | Insect News 3: Battle Bees, The Lanternfly Hoax, and Daylight Savings Time | It may have been a slow couple weeks on the Insect News front, but there's always something going on in the world of insects! Hear about the entomological origins of daylight savings time, a fake spotted lanternfly, and a woman charged for assault by using... bees? | 6m 53s | ||||||
| 10/10/22 | The Rocky Mountian Locust | The Rocky Mountain Locust is responsible for what is the largest locust swarm in recorded US history. In 1874 the swarm emerged from the rocky mountains and swept across the Midwest, blocking out the sun and covering entire states, leaving farms completely stripped of vegetation. Learn all about the 1874 swarm, and the insect that it was composed of, on this episode of Insectview! Sources: https://books.google.com/books?id=kSU4AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA25#v=onepage&q=caloptenus&f=... | 22m 33s | ||||||
| 10/10/22 | Insect News Episode 2: Tailless scorpions and plastic eating waxworms (you know, the usual) | The Ignobel awards were handed out recently, and the biology prize was given to research on scorpions ( not an insect, but close enough for us)! We also take a look at the recent resurgence of plastic eating waxworms in the news, get the whole story on this episode of Insect News! | 12m 19s | ||||||
| 9/26/22 | Insect News Episode 1: Monarchs and Lanternflies and mosquitos oh my! | The first episode of a new experiment we're doing where the topic is insect news! This hopefully bi-weekly series will be a quick look at whatever has been happening in the world of insects. For this episode we cover monarch butterflies status on the red list, the ongoing advance of the spotted lanternfly, turning ants from pets to garden helpers, and mosquitos unstoppable smelling abilities. | 11m 07s | ||||||
| 8/16/22 | The Cochineal Insect | You may not have heard of it, but you've definitely encountered this insect before. The Cochineal insect is used to make a striking red dye that can still be encountered in foods and makeup at your local grocery store. Learn all about it's biology and history on this episode of Insectview! | 15m 34s | ||||||
| 6/30/22 | Luna Moths | As far as moths go, this one is up there with the prettiest! Learn all about the luna moth's taste in plants as well as it's interesting defense mechanisms! | 11m 46s | ||||||
| 4/28/22 | House Flies | An insect everyone knows! The House Fly has been mildly irritating humanity since the dawn of time. Learn all about their life cycle, relation to public health, and why they're still afraid of Canadian children to this day. | 7m 39s | ||||||
| 3/19/22 | Insect Crimes | Hear ye Hear ye! The tale of the trial of the century is about to be told, the wine growers of St. Julian vs... weevils? Wait what? We're trying out a different format this episode by going over a piece of insect history! Tune in to learn about how medieval courts brought insects to trial! Source The Criminal Prosecution of Insects : Harry B. Weiss | 12m 27s | ||||||
| 1/18/22 | Bee flies | Bombs away! Learn all about this adorable flies curious egg laying habitats as we finally discuss an actual fly! Sources - The evolutionary pattern of host use in the Bombyliidae (Diptera): a diverse family of parasitoid flies (Yeates et al.) - https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/bee_flies.shtml - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombyliidae | 11m 26s | ||||||
| 12/30/21 | 2021 in review | Lets take a look back at the past year of Insectview, our plans for the future, and the candidates for the Bug of the Year! | 9m 08s | ||||||
| 12/21/21 | Dobsonflies | Welcome to your one stop shop for learning all about the enigmatic aquatic predators known as Dobsonflies! Citations - Oviposition of the Dobsonfly (Corydalus cornutus, Megaloptera) on a Large River (Brian P. Mangan) - Bionomics and Ecological Services of Megaloptera Larvae (Dobsonflies, Fishflies, Alderflies) (Sara Lariza Rivera-Gasperin et al.) - Behavioral Observations on the Dobsonfly, Corydalus cornutus (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) with Photographic Evidence of the U... | 15m 32s | ||||||
| 8/31/21 | Periodical Cicadas | Just like our episodes subject, Insectview has emerged once again! Hear all about this summer's sensation, Periodical Cicadas! Sources - https://www.cicadamania.com - http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/highlights/periodicalCicada.html - The Periodical Cicada ( C. L Marlatt ) | 16m 14s | ||||||
| 5/19/21 | FairyFlies | You might need a microscope for this episode, as were taking a close look at the tiny insects known as FairyFlys! Sources: - (Poinar G, Huber JT) "A new genus of fossil Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) from Cretaceous amber and key to Cretaceous mymarid genera." - https://web.archive.org/web/20100618034755/http://www.biology.lsu.edu/webfac/jcronin/biograph/publications/Anagbio.PDF - (Polilov, Alexey A) "Small is beautiful: features of the smallest insects and limits to miniaturization." - &n... | 10m 44s | ||||||
| 2/22/21 | Stoneflys | Endure our horrible stone puns as we cover the ins and outs of Stoneflies | 13m 38s | ||||||
| 1/1/21 | Monarch Butterflies | Usher in the new year by learning about one of the Americas most iconic butterflies! | 22m 18s | ||||||
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