Halloween Special!
Entocast
English - October 30, 2017 10:02 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 15 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mwahahaha... it's time for the Entocast Halloween Special! This time Nick and Liam discuss the freakiest insects they can find. Mwahahaha... it's time for the Entocast Halloween Special! This time Nick and Liam discuss the freakiest insects they can find. From flesh-eaters to mind-controllers the insect world has a variety of spooky bugs!
Mwahahaha... it's time for the Entocast Halloween Special! This time Nick and Liam discuss the freakiest insects they can find. From flesh-eaters to mind-controllers the insect world has a variety of spooky bugs!
Music as always by Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com, we use vanishing, this house, and breath, along with the normal disco medusae intro!
Extra halloween-esk music from Bensound.
Show NotesAnt wearing assassin bug - Acanthaspis petax
Acanthaspis petax
By Orionmystery - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
Note, for some reason Nick had in his head these guys were from Malaysia, they're actually from East Africa.
David Attenborough discusses A. petax
Study looking at use of ant corpses as disguise from spiders
Ant decapitating flies - Pseudoacteon spp.
Ant decapitating flies in action
Ampulex Compressa
By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2
Emerald Cockroach Wasp - Ampulex compressa
The cockroach wasp attacking it's cockroach host
Zombie ants - infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
David Attenborough and Zombie ants
Human bot flies - Dermatobia hominis
*Warning gruesome content* Bot fly being removed from a girl's scalp
Africanised Honey Bee - Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier
Japanese Giant Hornet - Vespa mandarina japonica
Giant hornets destroy a honey bee hive
Ant infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Native Japanese bees defend against giant hornets
The origin of the Halloween genes
Blog with picture of halloween genes on them
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