Episode 25: Four new species of armored scale insects and working on groups of organisms on which few others want to work!
Dr. Scott Schneider is a Research Entomologist in the Systematic Entomology Lab at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service in Beltsville, MD, USA. He talks to me about his paper published in the June...
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Episode 24: Huntsman spiders from Madagascar, David Bowie, and collecting spiders the size of dinner plates!
Dr. Peter Jaeger is the Head of Arachnology at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. He talks to me about his paper published in the June 10 issue of the...
29 Kesä 202130min
Episode 23: Reefs built by a new species of oyster instead of being built by corals!
Dr. Graham Oliver is an Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum of Wales in the UK. He talks to me about his paper published in the June 15 issue of the ZooKeys in which he and his coauthors d...
22 Kesä 202131min
Episode 22: Four new beetle species and why the term “adventive” should be used more!
Dr. Adam Brunke is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes. He talks to me about his paper published in the...
15 Kesä 202131min
Episode 21: The Taxonomic Impediment: a special episode in which we talk about the need for more evolutionary biologists!
Dr. Jason Bond is the Schlinger Chair in Insect Systematics at the University of California - Davis. He talks to me about a special topic of concern—something called the taxonomic impediment, which is...
8 Kesä 202139min
Episode 20: New millipedes from the northwestern US—eighteen (!!) new species in three new genera!
Dr. Bill Shear is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia. He talks to me about his paper published in the May 24 issue of the Zootaxain which he and hi...
1 Kesä 202133min
Episode 19: New Species—of orchids from Australia that trick gnats into sex!
Dr. Noushka Reiter is a Senior Research Scientist at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. She talks to me about her paper published in the May 13 issue of Phytotaxa in which she...
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Episode 18: New Species—of semi-aquatic mice from Africa, and getting DNA from a mouse captured 100 years ago!
Dr. Tom Giarla is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Siena College in Albany, NY. He talks to me about his paper published in the May issue of the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society in which ...
18 Touko 202130min
