Tag: Insects and Arachnids

#16: Tora Rocha and Terry Smith – The Pollinator Posse Part 2 – What Landowners Can Do to Create Habitat

March 9, 2021

Summary Today’s guests are Tora Rocha and Terry Smith, founders of the Oakland, California based Pollinator Posse. The Pollinator Posse creates pollinator-friendly landscaping and fosters appreciation of local ecosystems through outreach, education and direct action. They engage with municipalities, land owners, golf courses, garden groups, and the general public to help people become better stewards … More #16: Tora Rocha and Terry Smith – The Pollinator Posse Part 2 – What Landowners Can Do to Create Habitat

#15: Tora Rocha and Terry Smith – The Pollinator Posse on Monarchs, Their Amazing Lifecycle, and Their Frightening Decline in the West – Part 1

March 2, 2021

Summary Today’s guests are Tora Rocha and Terry Smith, founders of the Oakland, California based Pollinator Posse. The Pollinator Posse creates pollinator-friendly landscaping and fosters appreciation of local ecosystems through outreach, education and direct action. They engage with municipalities, land owners, golf courses, garden groups, and the general public to help people become better stewards … More #15: Tora Rocha and Terry Smith – The Pollinator Posse on Monarchs, Their Amazing Lifecycle, and Their Frightening Decline in the West – Part 1

#11: Charley Eiseman – Naturalist, Author, Innovator, and Leaf Mining Insect Specialist

December 28, 2020

Summary My guest today is Charley Eiseman. Charley is the lead author of the innovative and fascinating “Tracks and Sign of Insects and Other Invertebrates”, which digs deep into the details of insect identification through the clues they leave, such as egg masses, cocoons, galls, burrows, leaf mines and more. This initial treatment of leaf … More #11: Charley Eiseman – Naturalist, Author, Innovator, and Leaf Mining Insect Specialist

#5: Eddie Dunbar on Getting People Excited about Insects, and Building an Online Community

August 12, 2020

Summary Eddie Dunbar, MBA, is an entomologist, the Founder and President of the Insect Sciences Museum of California, and Adjunct Professor at Merritt College. With 38,000 species of insects in California alone, we need people like Eddie to help make sense of it all. Eddie’s passion is to engage the public with insects so they … More #5: Eddie Dunbar on Getting People Excited about Insects, and Building an Online Community