Arthro-Pod: March 2023

Friday, March 31, 2023

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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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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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Friday, March 3, 2023

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:

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