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#126 Bug Girl’s Favorite Insects
August 21, 2011 · 4 Comments
From ants to aphids, mosquitoes to mantises, entomology blogger Bug Girl has covered all kinds of things that creep, crawl and fly. This week, she joins us to talk about her favorite bugs, and why she finds them all so fascinating. And anthropologist and blogger Greg Laden joins us to discuss the cultural taboos surrounding eating insects.
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[...] of all, I am joined on this episode of Skeptically Speaking by anthropologist Greg Laden, who talks about entomophagy (bug [...]
by I’m on the radio! « Bug Girl’s Blog · on August 27, 2011 at 6:58 am
This is very cool! Great content.
by Daniella · on August 30, 2011 at 5:38 pm
Love the show and love BugGirl!
My internal botanist was haemorrhaging at hearing pollen described as sperm (male gametes). The male gametes of other plants are generally little swimmers, which are analogous to sperm. But the pollen grains of seed plants produce the tiny gametophytes, which germinate when they contact the female bits of flowers. If a pollen grain is equivalent to anything, it’s a spore. I’m sure BugGirl knows all this…
Thanks for listening, I need to go and lie down now.
by DrDave · on September 2, 2011 at 8:14 am
[...] you know that insects are damn nutritious and also ubiquitous! We eat them everyday, according to Bug Girl, in rice and coffee, and some women with red lipstick [...]
by Bondaegi For Health | Rearranging Prejudices · on September 22, 2011 at 2:59 am