Smologies #16: INSECTS with Lila Higgins
Image description: Lila Higgins stands in the insectory of the Natural History Museum of LA County. She has brown hair pulled back and is wearing clear rimmed glasses, a black dress and red lipstick. Alie is standing in front of Lila, smiling at camera. The SmOlogies logo appears between them.
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We're back with another shorter, cleaner edition of an Ologies classic. Today it's all the way back from 2018: INSECTS. Just straight up buuuugs. Quite likely Alie's favorite subject ever with an ologist who quite likely dramatically shifted her life. That would be Lila Higgins, with passion more powerful than a Goliath Beetle's "especially large slicey mandibles." We cover a lot of ground, from dinosaur bugs to why wasps are so problematic, and even why it's totally fine to kiss a cockroach.
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Lila Higgins' book, 'Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles'
A donation went to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Community Science Program
Full-length NSFW Entomology (INSECTS) episode with research links
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Sound editing by Steven Ray Morris, Mercedes Maitland and Jarrett Sleeper of MindJam Media
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