Arthro-Pod Special Mini-Pod: A Giant Discovery with Michael Skvarla
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English - March 04, 2023 03:25 - ★★★★★ - 60 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Education entomology insects bugs pest management Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Recently, Michael has been making the rounds in the news due to a discovery he made starting in 2012 back in his old stomping grounds of Arkansas. What started with insect collected straight off the side of a Wal-Mart has ended with a media blitz covering the epiphany that Mike had in front of a Zoom class in 2020 and the release of a journal article focused on a giant lacewing! Tune in and read on to find out more.
Photograph of the giant lacewing specimen, used as Figure 1 in the publication about the discovery
Screenshots of Michael teaching his Biodiversity and Taxonomy class over Zoom when he determined that the specimen was a giant lacewing. This is what the class was seeing as the discovery happened.
If you haven't seen any of the news articles, some of the more prominent can be found below:
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