60 min listen
#626 Our Friend, the Wasp
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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
May 25, 2023
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Podcast episode
Description
Is there an insect more universally despised than the wasp? What have they done to incur so much of our ire? No one likes them. Well... almost no one. Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural Ecology at University College London and cofounder of the Big Wasp Survey, is on a mission to improve the wasp's PR with her book "Endless Forms: Why We Should Love Wasps". She joins us to talk about the fascinating biology and behaviour of wasps and their societies, and how we can learn to better coexist with the wasp, thinking of it less as pest and more...
Released:
May 25, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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