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Previous episode on insects and Winter

Paper discussing invasion risk of E. murphyi's in Antarctica

Polypedilum vanderplanki the world's most freezable insect

Arctic Woolly Bear Moth (Gynaephora groenlandica) and it's cool lifecycle

Jordan Ryder

Roy Sanderson

Michelle Davis

Jenny Hodgson

Darren Evans

Jasper Hubert (+Koppert)

Michael Hassell

Vicki Senior

Ashleigh Whiffin

Matthew Esh

Gordon Port

Osmia bicornis

Nick's industrial partner - Biobest

Rearing Osmia spp.

Lengthening Megachile rotundata diapause

Problems of commercialisation

Overwintering is not good for lipids

iRecord app

BWARs Website

Some of the problems with recording

Nest site fidelity of Osmia bicornis

Mwahahaha... it's time for the Entocast Halloween Special! This time Nick and Liam discuss the freakiest insects they can find. From flesh-eaters to mind-controllers the insect world has a variety of spooky bugs!

Music as always by Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com, we use vanishing, this house, and breath, along with the normal disco medusae intro!

Extra halloween-esk music from Bensound.

Kissing bugs - Triatominae

Darwin had Chagas?

Ant wearing assassin bug -  Acanthaspis petax

Acanthaspis petax

By Orionmystery - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

• Note, for some reason Nick had in his head these guys were from Malaysia, they're actually from East Africa.

David Attenborough discusses A. petax

Study looking at use of ant corpses as disguise from spiders

Ant decapitating flies - Pseudoacteon spp.

Ant decapitating flies in action

Ampulex Compressa

By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2

Emerald Cockroach Wasp - Ampulex compressa

The cockroach wasp attacking it's cockroach host

Zombie ants - infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

David Attenborough and Zombie ants

Human bot flies - Dermatobia hominis

*Warning gruesome content* Bot fly being removed from a girl's scalp

Africanised Honey Bee - Apis mellifera scutellata Lepeletier

Japanese Giant Hornet - Vespa mandarina japonica

Giant hornets destroy a honey bee hive

Ant infested with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis

Native Japanese bees defend against giant hornets

The origin of the Halloween genes

Blog with picture of halloween genes on them

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This time we're letting the public do the talking for us! We're chatting to people at the insect festival in York all about insects. We also have an interview with Fran Sconce, who talks to us all about outreach in entomology. There's also some of the usual waffle from us.

Music as always by Kevin MacLeod at Incompetech.com, he also provides graph paper which is nice.

Heliocopris colossus

What's Outreach and what's the point?

Fran Sconce's Profile

Fran's Twitter

National Insect Week

York Insect Festival

Eat Bugs!

Riverfly Partnership

Buglife

Urban Buzz Project

Yorkshire Museum

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Chrysura refulgens - cuckoo wasp

By Alvesgaspar - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

I've asked it, you've asked it, we all have! What is the point of wasps? Well this time Nick and Liam try to answer it with help from Dr. Seirian Sumner and discover that wasps are more than just pests.

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.

Liam's blog on 'what is the point of wasps?'

Dr. Seirian Sumner

Wasps eat hundreds of kilos of insects

The big wasp survey

How to make a trap

Bees Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS)

Seirian's work on sociality

Lotka-Volterra

Wasps out-compete New Zealand Birds

Wasps as pollinators - Chiloglotis orchid

Plants attracting wasps

Yeast overwintering in wasps

Ancient Chinese inspiration for paper

Simon Looking cool posing in the EntoHub at Harper Adams

Get your Entocation! This time Nick and Liam are joined by the EntoProf, Prof. Simon Leather, as they discuss teaching in entomology. From Pokémon to Victorian Gentlemen Nick and Liam will take you through everything you wanted to know about entomological teaching.

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.

Paper on teaching entomology

Kids better at identifying pokémon than animals

What's the point in studying entomology?

Simon's twitter

Simon's blog - don't forget the roundabouts

Entomology at Harper Adams

Entomology at Reading

Entomologists are well-paid!

Insects are incredibly dependent on the surrounding temperature and environment, so how on earth do they survive winter? Where do they all go? That's what we're trying to find out this episode, and helping us with it is our supervisor Dr. Scott Hayward.

After interviewing our supervisor Scott he drank from a spiffing mug #podcast #marketinggenius

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Evolution of insect freeze tolerance

Hemispheric differences in insect cold tolerance

Good introductory Diapause paper

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.

What happens to insects when you increase CO2? That's what Liam's trying to find out! This time Nick and Liam are discussing Liam's work at the new institute of forest research at the University of Birmingham and they're joined by Professor Jon Sadler.

Sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society.

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.

Introduction to FACE experiments

Global List of FACE Experiments

BIFoR FACE experiment

How might plants respond to changing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere

How might insects react to increased CO2

Trees can have a secondary flush of leaves

Insect herbivory and nutrient cycling

Change in carbon/nitrogen ratio and effects on herbivory

Wasps use honeydew to find aphids

Professor Jon Sadler

Jon's Leverhulme research project with the Noble Chafer

Ecological state changes

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Nick and Liam are back and this time they're talking about their favourite group of insects: the bees. Join them as they discuss bees origins, pollination, some cool facts about bees and answer some frequently asked questions.

Sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society.

Intro music is by the lovely Kevin MacLeod at incompetech, find more of his music here.

What are bees?

Wasps laying into aphids

Evolution of bees

Honeybee pollen basket

By Muhammad Mahdi Karim - Own work, GFDL 1.2, Link

Megachile Scopa

By Pollinator at the English language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

Bees are great pollinators

Electric Charges and bees

Bees improve the quality of crops

Hand pollination in China

UK bee species

Tree Bumblebee coming to the UK

Carpenter bees (the genus Xylocopa in the subfamily Xylocopinae)

Tawny Mining Bee

By ©entomart, Attribution, Link

Two Osmia bicornis mating (Male on Top, Female below)

By André Karwath aka Aka - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5, Link

Red mason bee pulling a nail from a wall

Bee Declines (blog)

Bee Declines (paper)

Short haired Bumblebee reintroduction

Bumblebee conservation trust

Buglife

Immunotherapy in peanuts

One study looking at the effects of honey on hay-fever symptoms

Turns out bumblebees can fly

Slow motion insect flight