Arthro-Pod Episode 8: Art, Beetles, and Curation with Dr. Ainsley Seago

 

Hello everyone and welcome to our 8th episode! Today we are going to be talking all beetles all the time! We start with our pest profile covering dermestid beetles and introduce our new section, Entomology News! Then we have a great interview with taxonomist and artist extraordinaire Dr. Ainsley Seago!

If you want to check out Dr. Seago's work head to:

http://beetlesink.tumblr.com/

http://operationbabyhave.tumblr.com/

http://www.trufflebeetles.com/


Or follow her on twitter!




@americanbeetles





We talk about Ainsley's comic, you can buy it at Comixlogy
http://goo.gl/JL1JJF


Clan Apis comic:
http://www.jayhosler.com/clanapis.html
http://www.activesynapse.com/graphicnovels.html

Clemson USDA Extension

More info on dermestid beetles: 

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/resources/Dermestid355.shtml

Entomology Today News:

IGRs: http://entomologytoday.org/2015/01/28/researchers-discover-natural-insect-growth-regulators-in-plants/

Invasive aphid: http://entomologytoday.org/2015/02/03/new-invasive-aphid-pest-found-in-albuquerque-area/

Spinosad: http://entomologytoday.org/2015/02/05/a-spoonful-of-sugar-helps-insecticide-go-down/

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Beginning/ending theme: "There It Is" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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