Episode 101: Treehopper – Leaping Bug Teens

Life, Death, and Taxonomy

English - December 16, 2019 11:00 - 34 minutes - 41.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
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“And today we’re talking about a tiny helicopter with some interesting upward momentum.” Tiny insects are key menu items for a lot of creatures in the kingdom animalia. To be small and tasty is a recipe for doom if you don’t have some interesting survival tactics. Entire orders of insects start in vulnerable metamorphic stages […]