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InsectaPod Cast Episode 9 : Wood Boring Beetles The global economy we live in has many benefits, including ready access to products from all over the world. One drawback, however, is that material those products are shipped in can harbor unwanted pests. Today, we talk with Dr. Anthony Cognato about the effect of wood boring beetles that aren’t native to North America, and how they get here, as well as what one researcher is doing to enable quick response to future introductions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 8: Insects at the Border If you’ve ever taken an international flight, you may remember moments of tension as you passed through customs, filing into a long line with your baggage as people in front of you answer questions, holding customs declaration forms and your passport. Customs and Border Patrol officers greet you upon return to the US. Some have a dog with them, but rather than being a drug-sniffing dog, it may be a beagle trained to smell agricultural products including fruit, vegetables, and other items ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 7: Insect Collections People often picture entomologists either swinging a butterfly net in a field somewhere looking for insects to pin or hunched over a microscope looking at those pinned insects. In truth, though, the interests and activities of entomologists are varied, even when focused on a shared experience like collecting insects. In this episode, we look at what prompts three different entomologists to create insect collections, how they feel about the insects in them, and how some collections are anyth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 6: The art of Entomology Entomologists have created scientific illustrations of insects for centuries. With the aid of microscopes and a unique light projector called a camera lucida, scientists of the past created extraordinarily realistic images of insects. Sometimes, though, we can learn as much through artistic representations as realistic ones. In this episode, we explore the connections between science and visual art. In speaking with one painter with an interest in science we discover yet another way that en ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 5: Insects are all around In the Fall of 2007 we spent a weekend with friends on 100 acre stretch of woods in north-central Michigan. We learned that an ordinary walk in the woods surrounds us with insect activity, and that just because people aren’t entomologists doesn’t mean they don’t find insects compelling. In this episode, we look at three examples of the role insects play in ordinary people and activities. We speak with Todd Stonehouse about what drives his northwoods insect interest, have some fun with ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 3: Along came a spider The trapdoor spider is an elusive hunter with lighting-fast striking capabilities and a unique hidden home. In episode 3, we speak with MSU Professor Richard Snider about what makes these creatures so unique. Then we visit Jayson Boget of Preuss Pets in Lansing and learn that when it comes to spiders, it's often what's underneath the surface that enthusiasts find compelling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 4: Inside the nest We generally think of wasps strictly as aggressive pests, but the truth is their communities and socially interractions are complex and fascinating. In episode 4, we travel to the University of Michigan to visit with Elizabeth Tibbets, an Assistant Professor in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program. Tibbets' research focuses on the social lives of wasps, and she helps us explore the wasp interactions we don’t often see and explains how wasps enforce “rules” and “laws” witho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 2: Food for thought People eat insects. Those of us from western cultures might consider it gross, but the truth is every day people around the globe turn to bugs when hamburgers are not available. In this episode we take a closer look at this overlooked but nutritive part of the human diet. Who is eating them now, who might be in the future, and who could be today if they weren’t so convinced bugs are gross? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website InsectaPod Cast 1: There's no place like home The way humans raise honeybees affects millions of dollars in agricultural crops as well as life in the hive. In this episode we speak with a beekeeper to find out more about honey bees, and then turn to a pest solutions professional to explore why bed bugs, once nearly eradicated, are now back and tougher then ever. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website