Insect Minute

Dec 04 2012 11 ep. 1 mins 9
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Insect Minute was a collaboration between the NC State Insect Museum and WKNC 88.1 FM to highlight interesting aspects of the world of entomology.

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Social Insects

Dec 04 2012 1 mins  
Our resident entomology expert Heather Campbell brings us another Insect Minute. This week’s topic: social insects.

Bioluminescence

Nov 05 2012 1 mins  
Our resident entomology expert Heather Campbell brings us another Insect Minute. This week’s topic: bioluminescence.

Medical Insects

Oct 15 2012 1 mins  
Our resident entomology expert Heather Campbell brings us another Insect Minute. This week’s topic: medical insects.

Termites

Sep 25 2012 1 mins  
Our resident entomology expert Heather Campbell brings us another Insect Minute. This week’s topic: termites.

Cockroaches

Sep 17 2012 1 mins  
Our resident entomology expert Heather Campbell brings us another Insect Minute. This week’s topic: cockroaches.

Bed Bugs

Aug 10 2012 1 mins  
Our resident entomology expert Heather Campbell brings us another Insect Minute. This week’s topic: bed bugs.

Ticks

Aug 06 2012 1 mins  
This may be the “Insect Minute,” but a tick is no insect! Ticks are a part of the subclass Acari making them close relatives of mites and distantly related to spiders. Ticks have four life stages, beginning as an egg that hatches into a six-legged larva. The six-legged larva immediately sets out to look for an appropriate host to find a blood meal. Ticks, both male and female,

Cicadas

Jul 27 2012 1 mins  
If there is an insect that represents the feeling of summer, I would argue it is the Cicada. At an afternoon baseball game or cook out, a chorus of male cicadas are there providing a soundtrack, doing their most animated singing at the warmest point of the day. This association between summer and cicadas is not unique to North Carolina or North America for that matter.

The Biggest Insect

Jul 18 2012 1 mins  
When you are in a specialized career, like entomology for example, you are bound to get many questions. Some of the common questions we get are “What is the most dangerous insect?” “Which has the worst sting?” or “Who would win in a fight between place two large insects that would never cross paths here?” We’ll save these questions for future Insect Minutes. The quest

The Arctic Woolly Bear Moth

Jul 13 2012 1 mins  
As a kid in North Carolina, many of us grew up with the notion that banded woolly bear caterpillars could be used to predict the severity and length of the coming winter. If the band around the center of the caterpillar’s body was wide, we knew we were in for a winter full of snow days and sledding! I am sorry to report that this is, indeed, a wives’ tale. There can be a lot of