Arthro-Pod EP 79: What Goes Up Must Come Down- Insect Populations

As Extension professionals, the Arthro-Pod gang often gets asked questions about where a certain insect has disappeared to. It's a tough question to answer because there are so many factors that can impact insect populations. Today we're going to try and unpack some of those factors and talk about why you might be noticing fewer cicadas or why there was suddenly an explosion of butterflies in your area. Tune in!

Photo of Japanese beetle cluster by Jim Kalisch; UNL Entomology 

Show notes you can read through

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecs2.2274

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.2841

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/285/5430/1068

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5560498/

https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/dynamics-of-predation-13229468/

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Arthro-Pod EP 78: Insecticide Resistance with Caleb Hubbard

On today's episode of Arthro-Pod, the gang meets with Caleb Hubbard of the University of California Riverside. Caleb is a veterinary entomologist that works with house flies that can cause issues with dairy farms. These flies can be tough to control but also complicate things by becoming resistant to the insecticides we use against them. 

Tune in to learn about what insecticide resistance is, how it develops, and how researchers try to figure out ways to study it. Also, we learn a recipe for maggot food that sounds pretty yummy. 

Show notes

Some papers to review if you would like

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18lGnORKON1Jut-j-XHwgVS9NcggcBjuN/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YRi1g1_TsaXl_bNn4m6kXYrIyUFFV089/view?usp=sharing

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