The Six-Legged Narrative

The Six Legged Narrative EPS 2026-06-13

Six stories that take us from global migrations and tropical rainforests to conservation success stories, bee behavior, evolutionary mysteries, and a journey nearly half a billion years into the past: global dragonfly migration, the discovery of a new beetle species, conservation efforts for the American burying beetle, hygiene in bumblebees after pesticide use, a wide range of colors in peach-potato aphids, and the vast evolutionary history of millipedes.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-06-12

Six stories that span rivers, coastlines, laboratories, and living collections: the brief and spectacular life of Europe's largest mayfly, an invasive giant prawn spreading through Brazil's protected areas, a molecular map of how insects smell, a fever pathogen that keeps changing its face, a gene-silencing weapon against Varroa mites, and the slow creep of termites into northern Europe on the back of global trade.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-06-11

Six stories from the world of arthropods and invertebrates: ants colonizing city rooftops, a butterfly population that defied the odds, termites building in the dark, a cricket named for a Tolkien monster, the return of a feared livestock pest, and a black widow that came home with someone's groceries.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-06-10

What do a Philadelphia sewer and a 40-million-year-old German museum have in common? Both turned out to be hiding something nobody expected. This episode of The Six-Legged Narrative covers bees with an unusual address, a praying mantis that didn't get the memo about being small, the optical engineering trick that makes damselflies nature's master colorists, chimpanzees with a surprisingly sophisticated taste for army ants, an ant fossil hiding inside a famous poet's unexamined rock collection for two centuries, and a greenhouse pest that growers need to be thinking about right now.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-06-09

On this episode of The Six-Legged Narrative: an ancient predator spotted where it almost never goes, a bumble bee conservation win more than a decade in the making, surprising new data on monarch butterfly migration, a notorious hive pest finding an unexpected second purpose in a German research lab, a valley in southern China filled with more butterflies than most people will ever see in a lifetime, and a legal fight over a butterfly whose name tells you exactly what's at stake.