Arthro-Pod EP 136: Kevin O'Shea Insect Loving Educator

Howdy bug lovers, join Jody Green as she interviews Kevin O'Shea. Kevin is an international educator who loves bugs, birds, and just about anything out of doors. In his role as a teacher, he has realized over time just how disconnected many young people are from nature. He uses his talents to try and change that. If you would like to know more, you'll have to tune in!

Kevin and beetle pal bringing the education!

Show Notes: 

 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/justjapanstuff

 Twitter: https://twitter.com/MadForMaple

 Instagram (travel and life): https://instagram.com/jlandkev

 Instagram (nature stuff): https://instagram.com/shizenwildlife

 YouTube: http://youtube.com/@busankevin

 TedX Talk "I love bugs" https://youtu.be/S02c508IIjU

 

Other Podcasts:

Nature Talks Podcast

Just Asia Podcast

Just Japan Podcast

Munzee Maniacs Podcast

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Arthro-Pod EP 135: The Arthro-Pod Gang Goes Home

Today's episode is a little different than our usual offering. Recently, we were honored to be invited to present at Purdue's Department of Entomology as seminar speakers. One of our former guests, Dr. Krystal Hans, put together this special opportunity for us to come "home" to the department we all graduated from! It truly was a treat for us and we wanted to share the presentation we gave. You can listen to it here today, we hope you enjoy!

You will learn about how the show got started, the history of entomology in podcasting, and some behind the scenes stats about the pod!

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Arthro-Pod EP 134: History's Favorite Beetle- The Colorado Potato Beetle

Howdy bug lover's and welcome to today's episode of Arthro-Pod! Over the last couple of years, Jonathan has noticed it seems like the Colorado potato beetle pops up again and again in the history of entomology. So, for today's show, he tried to cover this handsome beetle's history from the 1800s until today. It's a crazy tale that involved colonization, war, Cold War era tactics, and even the Ukrainian-Russian War. Tune in to hear how this humble coleopteran from the Great Plains has become an international super bug!

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Show notes

Major source:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lawrence-Lacey/publication/291303476_Microbial_control_of_the_potato_tuber_moth_Lepidoptera_Gelechiidae/links/56a7be9308ae860e0255857e/Microbial-control-of-the-potato-tuber-moth-Lepidoptera-Gelechiidae.pdf

 

Say’s Description

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4268076&view=1up&seq=493

While not a Colorado potato beetle, this diagram shows off the trick tarsal formula for CPB

Origin of CPB
https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=tgle

The movement of Colorado potato beetle from Nebraska to the Eastern US

The movement of Colorado potato beetle as an invasive pest in Europe. 

Origins of potatoes

https://web.archive.org/web/20110426183520/http://www.cipotato.org/pressroom/press_releases_detail.asp?cod=17&lang=en

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200302-the-true-origins-of-the-humble-potato

Native potatoes:

https://www.the-journal.com/articles/on-the-trail-of-tiny-tubers-this-four-corners-potato-was-a-staple-of-native-american-diets/

https://thecounter.org/four-corners-potato-species-indigenous-crop-navajo-nation-usda-southwest-future/

War on the Potato Beetle

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23929124

Communist propaganda:

https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/amikafer.htm

Ukraine and Koloradi

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-colorado-beetle-separatists/25365793.html

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/amet.13131

CPB Control

https://extension.umaine.edu/publications/2424e/

https://ag.umass.edu/sites/ag.umass.edu/files/pdf-doc-ppt/cpb_insecticide_groups.pdf

https://cropwatch.unl.edu/potato/colo_potato_beetle

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Arthro-Pod EP 133: How to get your online MS in Entomology with Erin Bauer

Join the Arthro-Pod gang as they meet up with Erin Bauer of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Entomology to learn about Nebraska's online master's degree and how entomology education works on the internet! UNL's online master's was the first of its kind in entomology and Erin is not only the academic advisor and lecture for this program, she's a graduate of it! Tune in to learn about the three online entomology degrees in the US, how the experience is different than an in person degree, and how you can enroll! 

Show notes: 

Learn more about UNL's online program here

Erin's email: ebauer2@unl.edu

Erin Bauer Dept of Ento profile: https://entomology.unl.edu/faculty/erin-bauer

Online MS in Entomology UNL webpage: https://entomology.unl.edu/online-master-science-entomology

Online MS in Entomology Students Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/1U5ibO1

Distance Entomology Masters Projects: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entodistmasters/

Nebraska Entomology Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLEntomology

UNL Entomology Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unlentomology/

 

Fun stuff:

Insects in the World Fiction: https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/59/2/95/6742

Ultimate Recyclers: Maggots and Murder video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4pTI-Cgq8Q

Shed that Cuticle (fun video!): https://vimeo.com/372642833 (PW: ento115)

Death Scene Insect Succession in Nebraska Guidebook https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entomologyfacpub/983/

Entomology Lesson Plans for Elementary Educators: https://pressbooks.nebraska.edu/unlentomologylessonplansforelementaryeducators/

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Arthro-Pod Special Mini-Pod: A Giant Discovery with Michael Skvarla

Recently, Michael has been making the rounds in the news due to a discovery he made starting in 2012 back in his old stomping grounds of Arkansas. What started with insect collected straight off the side of a Wal-Mart has ended with a media blitz covering the epiphany that Mike had in front of a Zoom class in 2020 and the release of a journal article focused on a giant lacewing! Tune in and read on to find out more.  

Photograph of the giant lacewing specimen, used as Figure 1 in the publication about the discovery

Screenshots of Michael teaching his Biodiversity and Taxonomy class over Zoom when he determined that the specimen was a giant lacewing. This is what the class was seeing as the discovery happened.

Show notes

If you want to read the paper that reported the discovery, it can be found here. If you can't access it because of the paywall, email Michael (mxs1578_NO_@_SPAM_psu.edu and he will be happy to provide a copy.

If you haven't seen any of the news articles, some of the more prominent can be found below:

PSU press release

NY Times

BBC

der Speigel

NPR Weekend Edition

 

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Arthro-Pod EP 132: Water Mites with Logan Stenger

 

In February's final episode, Mike is hosting solo! Tune in to join him and his graduate student, Logan Stenger, as they dive in to water mites and talk about Logan's work!

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Arthro-Pod EP 131: The Life of a Curator with Dr. Ainsley Seago

On today's episode of Arthro-Pod, the gang meets up with a returning guest! Dr. Ainsley Seago was first featured in Arthro-Pod Episode number 8, way back in 2015, and we're so glad she agreed to come and talk to us about her life as the associate curator for the Section of Invertebrate Zoology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA. Tune in to hear about this unique career path, a discussion on why beetles are the most superior insect order, and why museums are important!

Show notes: 

https://carnegiemnh.org/research/ainsley-e-seago-ph-d/

https://twitter.com/americanbeetles

https://beetlesink.tumblr.com/

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