Welcome back bug lovers! Today, we put on our mythbusting aprons and tackle some of the various misconceptions, myths, urban legends, and internet pranks that involve insects. We're covering everything from pest control via tree fruits to the legality of mantis murder. If you have a favorite insect urban legend, sound off on Twitter and let us know it. Maybe we can do a follow up episode!

Nature's bug bombs?

Show notes

Ultrasonic pest control

https://cals.arizona.edu/yavapai/anr/hort/byg/archive/ultrasonicpestcontroldevices2020.html

Cockroach eggs in envelopes

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cockroach-eggs/ 

Earwig myths

https://www.popsci.com/environment/what-are-earwigs/ 

Hedge apples

https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/hedge-apples-pest-control-myth 

It's illegal to kill mantises 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kill-praying-mantis-illegal/ 

Butt spider attack 

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/two-striped-telamonia-spider/ 

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Hey there bug lovers! Today, Jody and Jonathan meet up with friend of the show, Dr. Jen Gordon of Bug Lessons consulting to talk about one of the most reviled insects known to humanity; the mosquito. There are lots of opinions and myths floating around out there about these bloodsucking parasites, but what is the truth. Tune in to learn about mosquito biology, methods of mosquito preventions, and for some myth dispersal!

Aedes aegypti courtesy of “CDC/ Amy E.

Lockwood, MS

Dr. Gordon, fighting the good fight against mosquitoes


Jen's career path recorded in ink under her skin

Show notes

Let's link to Jen's website: http://www.buglessons.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bug-lessons-consulting/

Twitter: @BugLessons

AMCA: https://www.mosquito.org/

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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!

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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! Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  

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! We would also love to direct you to listener Emily Sur's design store! Pick up a cool shirt or other fun item today! https://my-store-dd3c45.creator-spring.com Show notesMajor 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 Descriptionhttps://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 CPBOrigin of CPB https://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=tgleThe 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 potatoeshttps://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 Beetlehttps://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23929124 Communist propaganda:https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/amikafer.htm Ukraine and Koloradihttps://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-colorado-beetle-separatists/25365793.htmlhttps://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/amet.13131CPB 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 Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  

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: [email protected] Bauer Dept of Ento profile: https://entomology.unl.edu/faculty/erin-bauerOnline MS in Entomology UNL webpage: https://entomology.unl.edu/online-master-science-entomologyOnline MS in Entomology Students Facebook Page: http://on.fb.me/1U5ibO1Distance Entomology Masters Projects: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/entodistmasters/Nebraska Entomology Twitter: https://twitter.com/UNLEntomologyUNL Entomology Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unlentomology/ Fun stuff:Insects in the World Fiction: https://academic.oup.com/ae/article/59/2/95/6742Ultimate Recyclers: Maggots and Murder video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4pTI-Cgq8QShed 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/Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  

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 notesIf 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 SpeigelNPR Weekend Edition   Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  

  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! Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  

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/Questions? Comments? Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!  

  Insects are extremely diverse. Part of that diversity is apparent in the ways that they consume their preferred food. Today, inspired by an anonymous listener question, the Arthro-Pod gang goes over the different types of insect mouths and how they help insects to begin the process of digestion. Then join them as they traverse the three "guts" of insects and end up on the other side of the anus with insect frass. It's an episode with lots of colorful descriptions and turns of phrase, that's for sure. Insect mouths come in different shapes and perform different jobs but they contain the same parts across most of the board; a labrum, the mandibles, maxillae, the hypopharnyx, and the labium Chewing mouths are the most common of all mouths, found on predators and herbivores such as this grasshopper Chewing-lapping mouthparts can chew pollen and help with lapping up honey and nectar Siphoning mouthparts are unique, they have been modified to curl up and unfurl and help slurp up nectar Piercing-sucking mouthparts can be used to suck juices from plants, or as this wheel bug would do, to suck the juices from prey Sponging mouthparts are found on many flies, they use these to acquire liquid food Show notes https://genent.cals.ncsu.edu/bug-bytes/digestive-system/ https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~rider/Pentatomoidea/Teaching%20Structure/Lecture%20Notes/Week%2011a%20Digestive%20System.pdf Some of Jody's favorite bug poo Drywood termite frass is quite distinct Tomato hornworm frass is often compared to the shape of a hand grenade Here a tortoise shell beetle uses frass as a defensive shield Questions? Comments?  Follow the show on Twitter @Arthro_PodshowFollow the hosts on Twitter @bugmanjon, @JodyBugsmeUNL, and @MSkvarla36 Get the show through Apple Podcast, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcatching app!If you can spare a moment, we appreciate when you subscribe to the show on those apps or when you take time to leave a review! Subscribe to our feed on Feedburner!   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