The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-07

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-07

This episode of The Six-Legged Narrative covers a parasite that drives crickets into streams to feed endangered fish, a century-old insect classification mystery finally resolved, a surprising DNA census of Austria's terrestrial isopods, insect larvae that may be boosting crop nutrition, a genuine debate over whether roadside pollinator gardens help or harm the very insects they're meant to protect, and the cooperative spiders that can take down prey hundreds of times their size.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-06

This episode, I'm covering six stories that span the small-but-mighty world of arthropods: why a cockroach can survive a week without its head, a spider with an oddly specific taste for dirty socks, a garden beetle that can blister your skin if you're not careful, a virus that seems to make whiteflies tougher instead of weaker, a light-trap program in Singapore that pulled in tens of thousands of cicadas (and the openquestion of what repeated mass collection could mean for future generations), and the mantis shrimp strike powerful enough to draw blood through a neoprene boot. Fun, fast, and genuinely surprising, this is The Six-Legged Narrative.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-05

A beetle plays dead, a bug swims upside down, and a butterfly races a mountain it might not win. Plus: a decades-old mystery finally gets its missing piece, thanks to a random photo online. Six stories, one tiny world you'll never look at the same way again.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-03

Do spiders dream? This episode says maybe. From a beachcomber's discovery that reshaped whale science to a wasp with a very particular target, and a butterfly quest that turned a total beginner into a bestselling author, it's a tour through some of the smallest, strangest science happening right now. Plus, a personal story about hand-rearing one of the coast's most threatened butterflies. Tune in to The Six-Legged Narrative.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-02

A newly discovered beetle hiding in plain sight, the truth behind a butterfly's post-chrysalis mystery fluid, the insects working the night shift in farm fields, a bacterial partnership aphids can't live without, an ant that cloned a completely different species, and the household predator you should never kill on sight. Six stories, one host, and a whole lot of legs.