InsectView Dante and Mia Centuori

Ah the venerable Honeybee. Humanities history with this insect stretches back beyond the written word, even beyond podcasts. This incomprehensible timeframe has left people with a lot of time to figure out many different ways to keep, collect, and utilize honeybees. This is the focus of our first episode on honeybees, where we cover topics like early honey collection methods, the development of beekeeping, and the competing theories around the honeybees evolutionary origins. 

Hear about the bedbug infestation terrifying the city of Paris, an interesting new way of detecting heavy metal contamination (hint, if you were planning on eating plant galls in industrial areas, don't), and why there's a journal of apiculture in the Wright Brothers exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museums. 

Pierre Andre Latreille, a French entomologist who lived from 1762-1833, is probably best known for having his life saved by a beetle. However there's a lot more to his story, and he went on to make a number of sigificant contributions to the field of entomology ( all thanks to the beetle ). Learn all about this lesser known but important entomologist on this new episode of Insectview. 

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.en.19.010174.000245
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/09/pierre-andre-latreille-entomologist-who.html

Get the scoop  on why insects fly to light, the bugs at the American Musuem of Natural History's new wing, and what happened to the LAPD officer who was attacked by bees in this new news episode! 

Sources
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.11.536486v1
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/jessica-ware-insects-american-museum-natural-history.html?searchResultPosition=5
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/25/arts/design/gilder-center-natural-history-museum.html
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/1-sent-to-hospital-after-hundreds-of-bees-swarm-encino-neighborhood/
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/swarm-of-bees-closes-streets-in-encino-injuries-reported/
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/lapd-volunteer-recovering-after-being-swarmed-by-bees-in-encino/
https://www.foxla.com/news/lapd-volunteer-suffers-fractured-eye-socket-after-horrific-bee-attack-in-encino
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-18/los-angeles-expenses-lapd-volunteer-stung-bees-attack-viral-video
https://twitter.com/LAPDPIO/status/1659000653832933376
https://www.gofundme.com/f/volunteer-lapd-officer-attacked-by-bees

Meet Antarctica's largest native terrestrial animal, the Antarctic Midge, Belgica antarctica. Learn all about it's discovery during the voyage it was named after, it's interesting biology, and tiny genome in this new episode of Insectview!

New year same Insectview! Tune in to hear our recap of 2022, as well as some plans for the future.