Arthro-Pod on the Road: At the ESA NCB Share Fair

Jody and Jonathan take Arthro-Pod on the road and head up to Wisconsin! There, they take part in the Entomological Society of America's North Central Branch meeting and interview entomologists as they go through the Extension Share Fair. 

At our podcast booth we had our equipment and a large die for volunteers to roll. After getting a number they answered the corresponding questions. Tune in to find out what! 

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth and to swap stories!

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Arthro-Pod Episode 40 Women in Entomology Part 1

Howdy, howdy bug lovers! Today's show is part one of a two part series on women in entomology as we celebrate Women's History Month. For this episode your three regular hosts get together to introduce the topic and get the conversation going and the second episode we will feature guest interviews about current issues for women in entomology. 

We start our discussion today though by talking about two luminaries in entomological history, Maria Sibylla Merian and Edith Patch. After that, Jody solicited stories from scientists of today to hear about mentors and issues that persist in our field. We also discuss the role of social media in breaking down barriers, as we saw with #BugsR4girls. We hope you enjoy and learn a little something about our history and how we can still work towards a more equal tomorrow.  

Maria Merian (left) and Dr. Edith Patch are our two historical luminaries for today's episode!

Show notes:

To learn more about Maria Sibylla Merian, check out these resources

https://entomologytoday.org/2015/02/26/famous-female-entomologists-part-4-maria-sybilla-merian-the-mother-of-entomology/

http://www.themariasibyllameriansociety.humanities.uva.nl/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-made-science-beautiful/424620/

http://public.gettysburg.edu/~ketherid/Merian%201st%20ecologist.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/science/maria-sibylla-merian-metamorphosis-insectorum-surinamensium.html

To learn more about Dr. Patch, check out these resources

Entomology Today - Looking beyond Edith Patch's CV by Katie Todd

Entomology Today - Remembering Edith Patch, the First Female President of the Entomological Society of America by Amanda Clark

Wikipedia - Edith Patch

Biography: Without Benefit of Insects: The Story of Edith M . Patch of the University of Maine

Photos of Patchiella (under a CC BY 3.0 license)

Friends of Edith Patch - “non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating and continuing the legacy of Dr. Edith Marion Patch, a pioneering entomologist whose scientific, educational, and environmental work expanded the ecological understandings of scientists, educators, children, and families around the world.”

We also want to thank everyone who retweeted, favorited, or responded to Jody on Twitter! Your responses were very helpful in making our Women in Entomology Series!

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Arthro-Pod EP 39: Talkin' Termites with Hannah Davis

Hello bug lovers and welcome to our latest episode! On today's show Jody Green meets up with Hannah Davis to talk termites! The reason we are featuring those particular insects is that this week (March 12-17) is Termite Awareness Week. While this national spotlight on termites is focused on the problems they can cause, Hannah and Jody highlight the fact that not all termites are bad and some are even necessary! 

Tune in if you want to learn about the wacky life cycle of a termite, how their colonies work, and why termites are considered social cockroaches!

Hannah using an aspirator, or "pooter", to move termites from one box to another

Part of the discussion our termite scientists have today is centered around the recent media postings regarding termites being social cockroaches. Despite this research having been published for a while, there is a sense of interest in this topic right now: 

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/its-official-termites-are-just-cockroaches

http://www.pctonline.com/article/nc-state-termite-cockroaches-social-termites-genomes/

The blue termite in this image was stained with Nile blue (a histological stain), then treated with an entomopathogenic fungus. The other termites grooming it are demonstrating why biocontrol with fungi does not yet work

Hannah was kind enough to provide a link to a cool film on termite gut flagellates:

https://av.tib.eu/media/9427

You can also find Hannah's personal website here: http://hedavis.net/
Or, connect with her over Twitter @berlinbuggirl

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Arthro-Pod Episode 38: Get To Know Andy Deans

Howdy bug lovers and welcome to today's show! In this episode Mike Skvarla goes solo to interview his colleague Andy Deans of Penn State University. Dr. Deans is a natural historian and runs the Frost Museum as well. Tune in to hear all about it!

Check out the following links to learn more about Andy and the museum

Frost Museum curators blog: http://sites.psu.edu/frost/

Frost Museum Twitter: https://twitter.com/frostmuseum?lang=en

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