Hey there entomophiles and welcome to today's show! Today's episode is chock-full of great stuff for you! In the introduction we have a pest profile featuring silverfish and firebrats as well as our Entomology Today news segment. Then we are joined by Emily Meineke of North Carolina State University to talk about urban heat islands, scale insects, and the future of urban pests! Tune in! Oak lecaneum scale; Courtesy of Oregon StateIf you want to read up on Emily's work before listening to the episode you can find her papers at these links: Urban heat island effects on pest scale insects:http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0059687 Urban heat island effects on parasitoid wasps:http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/11/20140586 Learn more about the pest that Emily works with, oak lecaneum scale: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/O&T/trees/note36/note36.html You can read more about Emily and her research at her blog: https://emilymeineke.wordpress.com/ Or, connect with her via Twitter and discuss scale insects!@EmilyMeineke Pest Profile: Firebrats & Silverfish Control: http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest/factsheets/005-94.htm Entomology Today news Bark beetles controlled with fungus Famous female entomologist series Questions? Comments? Email: [email protected] the show on TwitterGet the show through iTunes!Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  Thanks for listening! This episode is freely available on archive.org and is licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Beginning/ending theme: "There It Is" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Intermission music: "Us" by Regina Spektor All rights reserved. Music was obtained legally.