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22. Insect Diagnostics and Macro Photography with Dr. Matt Bertone
Beyond the Bench
English - December 03, 2020 06:29 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBScience Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Why are plant and insect identification services essential, and how much fun is it to work at a plant disease and insect clinic? (Hint: a lot of fun.) Dr. Matt Bertone, Director and Diagnostician at the NCSU Plant Disease & Insect Clinic, discusses all things insect identification, specifically with flies. He also gets into why spiders are awesome, and he shows us some of his beautiful macro photography!
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