Latest Entomology Podcast Episodes
#95: The Rare 2024 Cicada Double Emergence with Dr. Chris Simon
Nature's Archive - April 22, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour2024 is going to be another year of the cicada, with the emergence of two periodical cicada groups, or broods (Brood XIII and Brood XIX), at the same time, roughly in late April to early May. Now, throughout much of the world, cicadas serenade us in summer afternoons - you might be familiar wit...
Arthro-Pod EP 157: The Cicadas of North America with Alie Kratzer
Arthro-Pod - April 21, 2024 20:57 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWelcome bug lovers to our latest episode! Asa vast swath of the eastern US prepares for the "double brood" emergence of the various Magiccicada species, we here at Arthro-Pod got to meet up with engineer, entomologist, and author Alie Kratzer to talk about her new book, "The Cicadas of North Ame...
#94: Secrets of the Octopus with Sy Montgomery and Warren Carlyle
Nature's Archive - April 08, 2024 07:00 - 1 hourWhen it comes to understanding nature, it often seems like the ocean surface - that undulating reflective layer of water - is more like an impenetrable curtain than just a layer of water. There is just so much we don’t know about, and are too quick to dismiss, all because we can’t easily obser...
Arthro-Pod EP 156: Nuptial Gifts, the Packages of Love
Arthro-Pod - April 01, 2024 01:43 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello lovers of bugs, as well as bugs who are in love! In today's episode, we take a journey through the world of nuptial gifts within the arthropods and find out why sometimes it is best to wrap a gift before trying to go on a date. Tune in to learn the basics of why nuptial gifts exist and...
#93: Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant - Carnivore Ecology, Wild Life, and Environmental Justice
Nature's Archive - March 25, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutesMy guest today is Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant. Dr. Wynn-Grant is the co-host of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, is a wildlife ecologist and affiliated researcher at the UC Santa Barbara Bren School of Environmental and Science Management. She’s also an author, with her new memoir entitled “Wild Life” c...
Arthro-Pod EP 155: Double Wormy- Jumping worms and Hammerhead Worms
Arthro-Pod - March 19, 2024 20:57 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWelcome back bug lovers! Today we venture into the world of worms, both segmented and unsegmented, to talk about jumping worms and hammerhead worms. While neither of them are arthropods, entomologists have been fielding inquiries on both over the last few years. We try to dispel some of the myth...
#92: Secrets of Beautifully Fuzzy Velvet Ants with Dr. Joseph Wilson (and a bit about native bees, too!)
Nature's Archive - March 11, 2024 07:00 - 1 hourHave you ever seen a fuzzy looking ant? Maybe it looked like a little pipe cleaner with fuzzy red or yellow hair? If so, you probably saw a velvet ant. And here’s the thing - it’s not even an ant at all. They’re wingless wasps, and they often turn up along hiking trails, roadsides, and sometim...
Arthro-Pod EP 154: Talking Scale Insects with Scott Schneider
Arthro-Pod - February 29, 2024 16:28 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHowdy bug lovers! Scale insects are simultaneously fascinating and sort of uninteresting. They are notoriously immobile for much of their life, making them the insect of equivalent of couch potatoes. But, with that comes intriguing questions about how they live, thrive, and survive. Today, Mike ...
#91: Examining Tree Physiology with Dr. Lucy Kerhoulas: Insights into Drought Adaptation and the Carbon Smoking Gun
Nature's Archive - February 26, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourIn nature, tree physiology is like the engine that keeps forests running smoothly, similar to how human physiology keeps our bodies going. Just as we study how our bodies' metabolism, respiratory systems, and other systems work to keep us healthy, biologists can look at tree physiology to unders...
Arthro-Pod EP 153 Turkestan Cockroaches with Dr. Andrew Sutherland
Arthro-Pod - February 15, 2024 01:51 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello bug lovers and welcome to a roach filled Valentine's edition of Artho-Pod! Jody and Jonathan meet up with Dr. Andrew Sutherland of University of California Extension. Andrew is an urban entomologist and an area IPM advisor for UC who serves the San Francisco area. As for today's topic, the...
#90: From Invasive Species to Allergenic Pollen with Allasandra Valdez (The Happy Botanist Podcast) and Dr. Daniel Katz
Nature's Archive - February 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourYou’re in for a treat today - it’s like two episodes in one. My guest today is Allasandra Valdez, a botanist working on her PhD in plant physiology in Cornell University’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department. Allasandra also has a background studying invasive species, and is the creato...
Arthro-Pod EP 152: Artificial Intelligence, Entomology, and Extension
Arthro-Pod - January 31, 2024 16:29 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello bug lovers and our new machine overlords and welcome to a new episode of Arthro-Pod. Today, Jody, Jon, and Mike, decide to swerve a bit out of their lane and discuss their thoughts about artificial intelligence, specifically the intersection of AI and entomology/Extension. There is a l...
#89: Burning Questions: Understanding Fire Management with Lenya Quinn-Davidson
Nature's Archive - January 29, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourMany of you might recall the dramatic 2020 fire season in the western USA. In California alone, close to 4 million acres burned. Cities were clouded with smoke and unhealthy air for many weeks. I had ash fall at my home in San Jose, CA on several occasions. But did you know that based on pre-co...
Arthro-Pod EP 151: Delusory parasitosis and entomology
Arthro-Pod - January 17, 2024 21:59 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello friends, and welcome back to Arthro-Pod! Today's episode is a look at a phenomenon many entomologists will encounter, even if they aren't ready to, known as delusory parasitosis. Also referred to as delusions of infestation and Ekbom's syndrome, this situation involves a person believing...
#88: BLM Unveiled: A Journey with Josh Jackson into our Forgotten Lands
Nature's Archive - January 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourI bet you’ve heard of the National Park Service. Or the US Forest Service which manages all of our National Forests. But did you know that there is another land management agency that manages more public land than either the National Parks or National Forests? This overlooked agency is the Bur...
#87: California Condors with Tiana Williams-Claussen (Golden State Naturalist Crossover!)
Nature's Archive - January 01, 2024 08:00 - 1 hourToday’s episode is all about California Condors with Tiana Williams-Claussen, the director of the Yurok Tribe’s wildlife department. This episode is actually from my friend Michelle Fullner of the Golden State Naturalist podcast. If you don’t know Golden State Naturalist, I think this episode is...
Arthro-Pod EP 150 2023 Arthropod News Roundup
Arthro-Pod - December 31, 2023 00:38 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello bug lovers! We hope you have had a wonderful 2023 and are looking forward to 2024. To wrap our season for the year, we wanted to do something fun and make a bit of a news round up focused on arthropods (and some adjacent critters) and see what people were saying about our creepy crawly...
#86: Double Feature! The Yard of the Future and We Live in a 10% World
Nature's Archive - December 18, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutesDouble the nature content in the same amount of time as a typical Nature's Archive? Well, I think we've come close today, and no, we're not playing an interview at double speed. Here's your chance to hear two episodes of the Jumpstart Nature podcast from our pilot season, covering the topics of...
Arthro-Pod 149: The Arthropods of Holiday Folklore
Arthro-Pod - December 15, 2023 19:14 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWelcome back bug lovers and ho ho ho, happy holidays! On today's show we're diving into Christmas trees! When these trees are being grown, there are some pests that might make their way onto the leaves and twigs, so we're talking about their biology and management. However, most of our calls t...
#85: Life After Dark (Nocturnalia!) with Charles Hood and Dr. José Martínez-Fonseca
Nature's Archive - December 04, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourLet’s dive into the enchanting world of hidden wonders that come to life after dark! Our guests today are Charles Hood and José Martínez-Fonseca, authors of the new book “Nocturnalia: Nighttime Life of the Western USA" from Heyday Books. Charles is an author, poet, birder, and world traveler...
Arthro-Pod EP 148: Bed Bugs in Paris
Arthro-Pod - November 28, 2023 15:53 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello bug lovers! Recently, there has been a lot of clamor about the discovery of bed bug issues in Paris, France. It's been interesting to watch a resurgence in questions and concerns with bed bugs pop up because of this and to hear people pondering what this means for events such as Paris Fash...
#84: Dr. Marshall Shepherd - Weather is Your Mood, Climate is Your Personality
Nature's Archive - November 20, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourWeather is like your mood, and climate is like your personality. Those are the words of today’s guest, Dr. Marshall Shepherd (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram). Despite the clear differences between these two concepts, there are many topics of confusion that persist. For example, is El Nino, wh...
Arthro-Pod EP 147: Cockroach Super Powers with Bugs Need Heroes podcast
Arthro-Pod - November 15, 2023 14:13 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello bug lovers! Today, we're proud to publish a podcast recorded, edited, and produced by our friends at the podcast Bugs Need Heroes!! We met with them on their show back a little while back and had a blast talking about cockroaches, super heroes, and -most importantly- Danny Devito. They...
#83: If Trees Could Talk with Dr. Grant Harley
Nature's Archive - November 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hourThere are living trees in the United States that are approaching 5000 years old - and I’m not talking about trees that clone (I’m looking at you, aspen). Imagine if those trees could talk! Well, in a way, they can! That’s where dendrochronologists like Dr. Grant Harley come in. And it turns ou...
#82: Amanda Monthei - Life with Fire
Nature's Archive - October 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hourAs you all know, I find wildfire to be fascinating. It’s complex, simultaneously necessary and at times devastating, and wildly misunderstood. And the landscape of fire is rapidly changing - literally and figuratively. So, I hope to continue to bring a variety of voices and perspectives on wildf...
Arthro-Pod EP 146: Arthro-Pod Dissects "The Fly"
Arthro-Pod - October 19, 2023 14:51 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsWelcome to spooky season bug lovers! To celebrate, the Arthro-Pod crew sat down and watched the 1986 film, "The Fly" starring Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis and directed by the master of body horror, David Cronenberg. A word of warning, this one might not be suitable for all ages as we do tal...
#81: Dr. Emma Greig - From Fairywrens to FeederWatch
Nature's Archive - October 09, 2023 07:00 - 1 hourDr. Emma Greig is a behavioral ecologist who has been leading Project FeederWatch, a multi-decade community science effort led by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Birds Canada. Today's discussion could be broadly characterized as "how to take care of the birds that visit your yard" - and you ...
Arthro-Pod 145: A Deep Dive into West Nile VIrus
Arthro-Pod - September 30, 2023 04:06 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHello bug lovers! Today, we're guided by Mike Skvarla into a deep dive on West Nile virus. A mosquito borne illness, West Nile is something the Arthro-Pod crew has learned a lot about over the course of their lives and careers. In fact, one of them even tested positive for it after trying to giv...
#80: El Niño (ENSO) and Ocean Temperatures
Nature's Archive - September 25, 2023 07:00 - 50 minutesHave you heard of El Niño? Some people call it the single biggest influence on winter weather in North America. But what is it, and how does it work? And we're in an El Niño event this year, and it's going to affect our weather (and ecology!) There is always much confusion about El Niño, what i...
Arthro-Pod EP 144: On the Fly with Insect Wings
Arthro-Pod - September 18, 2023 15:17 ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsHowdy bug lovers! Last episode, we started our discussion of insect locomotion by getting up close and personal with insect legs. Today, we'll be a little more airborne as we discuss insect wings. Insects are the only invertebrates with the power of flight and there have long been questions ...
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