Hello bug lovers! In today's episode, Jody, Jonathan, and Michael are joined by entomology legend, Dr. Tom Turpin of Purdue University. Tom is an ESA fellow, an author (check out Flies in the Face of Fashion, Mites Make Right, and other Bugdacious Tales and What’s Buggin’ You Now? Bee’s Knees, Bug Lites, and Beetles), and is most famous for his work in teaching and outreach.
Today, he helps Arthro-Pod to examine the use of insects and their relatives in poetry. If you have every wanted to know why the cicada sings or the why the firefly glows, this isthe episode for you!
If you want to read some of the poems discussed:
https://www.literarymatters.org/18-1-meleager-of-gadara-to-the-cicada/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58430/firefly-56d23ccbb5f21
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53210/on-the-grasshopper-and-cricket
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Intro and Outro song: "There it is" by Kevin McLeod, Incomptech Music