InsectView

The mystery of where the German cockroach originated from has been solved! There's also a new ant species named after Voldemort. In this news episode we cover the aforementioned as well as how mosquitoes can be used for bird feed, how rusty patched bumble bee populations are organized, a New York City bee conservation effort, and more.  

Ah the venerable Honeybee. Humanities history with this insect stretches back beyond the written word, even beyond podcasts. This incomprehensible timeframe has left people with a lot of time to figure out many different ways to keep, collect, and utilize honeybees. This is the focus of our first episode on honeybees, where we cover topics like early honey collection methods, the development of beekeeping, and the competing theories around the honeybees evolutionary origins. 

Hear about the bedbug infestation terrifying the city of Paris, an interesting new way of detecting heavy metal contamination (hint, if you were planning on eating plant galls in industrial areas, don't), and why there's a journal of apiculture in the Wright Brothers exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museums. 

Pierre Andre Latreille, a French entomologist who lived from 1762-1833, is probably best known for having his life saved by a beetle. However there's a lot more to his story, and he went on to make a number of sigificant contributions to the field of entomology ( all thanks to the beetle ). Learn all about this lesser known but important entomologist on this new episode of Insectview. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.en.19.010174.000245https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/09/pierre-andre-latreille-entomologist-who.html

Get the scoop  on why insects fly to light, the bugs at the American Musuem of Natural History's new wing, and what happened to the LAPD officer who was attacked by bees in this new news episode! Sourceshttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.11.536486v1https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/jessica-ware-insects-american-museum-natural-history.html?searchResultPosition=5https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/gilder-center-natural-history-museum.htmlhttps://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/1-sent-to-hospital-after-hundreds-of-bees-swarm-encino-neighborhood/https://ktla.com/news/local-news/swarm-of-bees-closes-streets-in-encino-injuries-reported/https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-volunteer-recovering-after-being-swarmed-by-bees-in-encino/https://www.foxla.com/news/lapd-volunteer-suffers-fractured-eye-socket-after-horrific-bee-attack-in-encinohttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-18/los-angeles-expenses-lapd-volunteer-stung-bees-attack-viral-videohttps://twitter.com/LAPDPIO/status/1659000653832933376https://www.gofundme.com/f/volunteer-lapd-officer-attacked-by-bees