Title: Episode 5 – Lord Of The Flies – Learning To Appreciate Summer Pests

This week join Indie and Jenn on a beautiful summer morning in a naturalized area brimming with nature’s bounty including a healthy dose of mosquitos!

As always in this episode you will bask in the sounds of nature and enjoy listening to early morning birdsong while hearing Jenn muse about:

 

• The benefits of having kids who are old enough to drive and pick you up after having a couple of glasses of wine with a girlfriend!
•  The importance of incorporating nature and movement into your daily routine
•   The antics of trying to escape a deerfly while swimming in a lake
•   Indie’s fear and dislike of water – and one really funny time she fell in
• Why animals (including Indie) roll in the dirt taking “dirt baths”?
• Is it possible to learn to love mosquitos?

 

This week we will dive deeper into:

 

•    How to identify various summer flies including: deerflies, horseflies, and blackflies
•     The benefits that mosquitos bring to the world (are there any?)

 

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References Cited In This Podcast – Knowledge is power!  Learn more about those flies that buzz around head on your summer outings!

NPR – Mosquitos.  What Are They Good For?

Field Museum – In Defense Of Mosquitos.

Raid – 7 Fascinating Mosquito Facts

The University of Chicago – Why Breeding Millions of Mosquitos Could Help Save Lives with Scott O’Neill

Toronto.com – Black flies, deer and horse flies: What's the difference and will they be bad in Ontario this year?