What Doesn't Kill You
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First Aired - 05/02/2011 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist Bernie and Carol explain all the buzz around mosquitoes and other members in the order Diptera. Find out the only place in the world that mosquitoes don't live and how Jurassic Park got its science wrong (hint: not all mosquitoes have to drink blood!). Later on in the show learn about why mosquitoes are such effective vectors for carrying infectious diseases, such as malaria and heart worms, and what is being done to control them. This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse.
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The Naturalist: Mosquitos (17:52)
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diptera, exopterygota, entopterygota, nectar, pupa, bedbug, vegetarians, The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A. Butler, The Barterhouse, Heritage Radio Network, mosquitoes, there are no mosquitoes in Antarctica, 176 species of mosquito in North America, specialist mosquitoes, blood feeders, fossil, toxorhynchites mosquito, mosquitoes that don't drink blood, Jurassic Park, butterflies don't make cocoons, only moths make cocoons, one pair of wings, order diptera, ecologic niche, mosquito larvae, microscopic zooplankton, obligate bloodfeeders, stable fly, odor receptors on antennae,Mosquitos Continued (24:41)
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biting, mating, diurnal, crepuscular, warm blooded vertebrate, proboscis, anesthetic, vasodilator, anticoagulant, limburger cheese, use sound to find each other, mosquito mating, harmonizing of buzzing, anapheles mosquito, short life cycle, mating plug, popcorn syndrome, mosquito swarms, malaria, mosquito-borne disease, protozoa, infection disease vector, pathogens, heart worms, West Nile virus, entomologist, millipedes, flies and ticks, mosquito repellent, Papua, New Guinea, DEET, insect stings, anaphylaxis, bed nets, Bill Gates, Gates Foundation,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 02/15/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides talks about pollution in some of our New York waterways. Also, he talks about hibernating animals and winter birds.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Newtown Creek (10:10)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Heritage Radio Network, Salumi Artisinal Cured Meats, Newtown Creek, the border between Queens & Brooklyn, seals are back in New York harbor, wildlife, newtown Creek is one of the nations most polluted waterways, underground water spill has been causing problems in Greenpoint for decades, the creek is a dead end, EPA, sediment, contamination was found in just about every part of the creek, gas plants, asphalt plants, PCB's, chemicals, remediation,Toxic Algae & Brown Tide (16:50)
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Gowanus Canal, fish are back in the creek, blue fish, the waterway is being cleaned, Greenport, Long Island, scallop industry, November opening of scallop season, toxic marine algae, brown tide, economically devastating harvest, toxic plankton, Suffolk County, Peconic Bay, Orient Point, spawning and fertilization, Nature Conservancy, Stonybrook University, Long Island University, Cornell University, nitrogen, the abductor muscle is the only edible part of the scallop,Winter Birds & Hibernating Animals (13:26)
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hibernation, squirrels, acorns, birds, chickadees, sparrows, cardinal, starling, winter vacation, which animals are still out in the wintertime?, city parks, bird feeder, bird seed mixes, the white breasted nut hatch, downy woodpecker, Carolina wren, fox sparrow, American goldfinch, why hibernate?, energy comes from food which is often difficult to find in the winter, mammals are warm blooded, Groundhog's Day, Mayor Bloomberg, cold blooded animals cannot survive in the snow and ice, salamander, insects, larva, pupa, praying mantis,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/08/2010 12:00PM
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Author Carol A. Butler joins The Naturalist again, this time to talk about bees.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Bees! (11:08)
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Bernie Wides, The Naturalist, Carol A. Butler, Why Do Bees Buzz, spring is coming!, beehives, honey, Central Park, 60 species of bees have been identified in Central Park, they are hard to identify, the move quickly and look a lot alike, American Museum of Natural History, bees are the only insects for which artificial insemination techniques are successful, most honeybees only live for a few weeks, refined sugar, sweeteners, pollination, monoculture crops, nectar,The Life of a Worker Bee (10:40)
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Mayans, Incas, Tulum, Mexico, bees are symbolic in Salt Lake City, state house has a bee hive on top of it, The Bee House, Mormons, polygamist, workers, drones, Queen, different bee types in the hive, the workers change their job as they develop, the females do all the work in the hive, reproductive organs don't develop, reproductive self restraint, the Queen lays thousands of eggs a day, the Queen gives off pheromones, suppresses ovaries from developing, genetic mapping, Madeleine Beekman, the drone has no function other than to mate with a virgin Queen, the drone is not equipped to collect pollen, the drone has compound eyes larger than the female, sensitive antenna, foragers bring the nectar in, they regurgitate it into the mouth of the worker bees, their phallus breaks off after mating,Beehives, Swarms & Metamorphasis (12:01)
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bee swarms, compound eyes, with the extra eyes they can follow the scout bee to the new locaation, police force, it used to be illegal to have beehives in New York City, that law has now been changed, if you are allergic to bee stings you shouldn't raise bees, Bushwick, Erica Wides is about to set up a hive at Roberta's, pheramone, honey bee larva, silk, cocoon, honeycomb is sealed up, pupa, similar to a moth, 12% of insects don't go through this kind of metamorphasis, exoskeleton, we have an internal skeleton and are vertabrates,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
