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First Aired - 04/18/2011 12:00PM
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This week on The Naturalist, Bernie Wides welcomes back Ariana Rickard & Pierre Bull to talk about their trip to the Everglades. They pick up right where they left off and tell stories of mosquito swarms on the Snake Bite Trail, wood storks & more! Tune in to learn about the Portuguese Man O' War, The Killing of Mr. Watson and drug problems in the Everglades. This episode was sponsored by The Barterhouse
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The Naturalist: A Return to the Everglades (18:33)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Heritage Radio Network, The Barterhouse, Ariana Ricard, Pierre Bull, Flamingo, Nine Mile Pond, canoeing, mangrove forest, plant dealers, The Orchid Theif, white orchid, Adaptation,Mosquitoes, Birds & The Portuguese Man 'o War (25:51)
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Snake Bite Trail, mosquitoes, salt marsh mosquitoes, mosquito bites, wood stork, fasted reflex for a vertebrate species, two seasons in the Everglades, wet season and dry season, brown pelicans, special air sacks for when they hit the water, they eat 4 pounds of fish a day, Portuguese Man o War, The Killing of Mr. Watson, drug problems in the Everglades,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
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 - 02/28/2011 12:00PM
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The Naturalist returns to the airwaves after a short break, and Carol A. Butler recaps her wonderful Winter NY Cruise. Tune in and learn more about the hidden natural world of New York City including some fun facts about seals and cormorants. Later in the show, Carol & Bernie preview some new projects and talk about the various eye functions of different birds and insects. This episode was sponsored by Route 11 Potato Chips / Tabard Inn. For more information visit www.TabardInn.com
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The Naturalist Introduction: New York Winter Cruise (19:50)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, Carol A Butler, Winter Cruise, sponsored by the New York Auduhn Society, seals, Red Hook, gulls, winter birds, shore birds, cormorants, water birds, in Asia they use cormorants are pets, used for fishing, Trinidad, Tobago,Eye Functionality in Insects & Birds (21:36)
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hummingbirds, Costa Rica, butterfly farms, cloud forest, Texas is a great place for migrating birds, bird photography, function of the eye, insects and birds, how different animals see differently, birds eye view, what does it look like to a be when they see a flower?, blind cave fish, DarwIn, bees have five eyes, three more light sensitive undeveloped eyes on their head, bee swarms, sperm whales, physically the largest eye in the animal kingdom, birds have the largest proportional eyes,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
