The speaker talks about their transition from field work to working in a museum and focusing on science communication. They share their excitement about receiving bug pictures and attending a bug meetup, as well as discussing a bug warehouse called Bioquip. They also explore the presence of bugs on our bodies and delve into the social behavior of ants, bees, and wasps.
Buuuugs. We cover perhaps Alie's favorite ology ever with an ologist who changed her life. Meet Lila Higgins: the self-professed "bug geek" with passion more infectious than a glassy winged sharpshooter mouth. (That will make sense later.) We talk about clowns in the forest, badgers, Hare Krishnas, solitary bugs vs. social ones, why wasps are such dicks and why it's totally fine to kiss a cockroach and eat a cricket.
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Theme song by Nick Thorburn
Production help by Jason Scardamalia