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When caterpillars attack: How climate change impacts our interactions with bugs

When caterpillars attack: How climate change impacts our interactions with bugs

FromSomething Offbeat


When caterpillars attack: How climate change impacts our interactions with bugs

FromSomething Offbeat

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Length:
12 minutes
Released:
Jul 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Spongy moth caterpillars have taken over the lives of a Maine couple this year, from ruining trees to popping up in food. This week, Angela Mech, assistant professor of forest entomology at the University of Maine, and Erika Hasle, a conservation ecologist with the Keller Science Action Center at The Field Museum in Chicago, joined Something Offbeat to fill us in on the outbreak and explore how climate change influences human interactions with the insect world.
Released:
Jul 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

What’s the deeper story behind that weird headline you forwarded to your friends or shared at the watercooler? We ask questions to gain grounded insight into the stranger news of the week.