Episode 61: Genetic Control of Courtship Behaviors in Flies and Roaches (Happy Belated Valentine’s Day)
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Episode 59: Dead Dinosaurs, Cockroach Sperm, and Monkey Testicles – A Science Sampler Platter for the New Year
Image: Male genital hook (left) and acrosomes on sperm cells (right) on Supella dominicana, described from amber. (Source: Poiner 2022)
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Read moreEpisode 58: Where Do Insects Go When It’s Cold?
Image: “One of the world’s rarest and least understood insects, a grylloblattid ice crawler (Grylloblatta sp.). Photographed live at night on an ice field, Northern California, USA.” (Source: Wikimedia Commons, by way of Alex Wild – a very nice guy I met at a BugShot workshop one year)
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Read moreEpisode 36: Aaron Fairweather on Myrmecology (Ants) and Being a Furry in Scicomm
Image: Partially exposed colony of Lasius niger. Image used under the terms of CC BY-SA 3.0 license. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.
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Read moreEpisode 28: Y’all Heard of the Picture-Winged Flies (Ulidiidae)?
Image: Four images of Xanthacrona bipustulata. (Source: Charles Wallace)
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Read moreEpisode 20: Bug Dicks Revisited (Valentine’s Day Special)
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Episode 14: Faelan Mourmourakis on Bee Cognition
Image: A photograph of workers from a managed hive of Apis mellifera, the European honeybee. (Source: Charles Wallace)
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Read moreEpisode 5: Erin Barbeau on Bug Dicks, Museums, and Science Fiction
Image: The isolated male genitals (aedeagus) of the beetle Ochthebius maculatus Reiche, 1872. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
Read moreEpisode 2: Talkin’ Taxonomy (Charles’s Interests)
Image: “A phylogenetic tree of life, showing the relationship between species whose genomes had been sequenced as of 2006. The very center represents the last universal ancestor of all life on earth. The different colors represent the three domains of life: pink represents eukaryota (animals, plants and fungi); blue represents bacteria; and green represents archaea. Note the presence of Homo sapiens (humans) second from the rightmost edge of the pink segment.” (Source: Wikimedia Commons)
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