The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-14

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-14

From the electric zapper on your back porch to a half billion year old fossil bed in Morocco, this episode of The Six-Legged Narrative covers a lot of ground. Nathan digs into a universitystudy on what insect zappers actually kill, checks in on a firefly species being considered for federal protection, explains how burrowing crabs quietly influence coastal methane levels, tracks a mantis species expanding its range in Montana, introduces a couple of office favorites in the tailless whipscorpion, and closes with a reflective look at the ethics of the international fossil trade.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-13

From a moth taped into a decades-old computer logbook to trilobite fossils sitting near the summit of Mount Everest, this episode of The Six-Legged Narrative covers a rare ant colony discovery in Scotland, groundbreaking research into bee silk as a future supermaterial, an invasive mantis crisis unfolding across Europe, and a wonderfully absurd story about seagulls getting tipsy on swarming ants. Six stories, six legs (mostly), and one host who thinks all of it is fascinating.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-11

This episode of The Six-Legged Narrative dives into six stories from the world of arthropod science: a Clemson researcher's hunt for undiscovered species in forest leaf litter, new findings on why most flies share a common flight style (and why mosquitoes don't), slow-motion footage of bumblebees reacting to good and bad tastes, a tiny parasitoid wasp being deployed against the invasive emerald ash borer, a citizen-science discovery of natural armor on a leafcutter ant, and a heartwarming conservation story about cattle grazing helping save one of Britain's rarest butterflies.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-10

From an eerie insect mystery to a jaw-dropping feat of natural engineering, this episode of The Six-Legged Narrative dives into six stories that prove the small stuff runs the world.  Nathan breaks down a piece of insect architecture gone enormous, a decades-in-the-making conservation gamble, a myth worth retiring for good, an unlikely partnership playing out in orchards, a strange generational twist in the arachnid world, and a design breakthrough borrowed straight from nature's own engineers.  Grab your headphones — this one's got range.

The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-09

Six stories from the world of insects: what it means that bumblebees are absorbing far more toxic metal than honeybees, why periodical cicadas spend over a decadeunderground before their explosive group emergence, the eerie "death spiral" that can trap leafcutter ants without their queen's guidance, a coconut-saving army of earwigs and parasitic wasps in Vietnam, a newly named beetle genus honoring a very famous cartoon pirate, and new neuroscience on how ants evolved the instinct to care for each other's young. Fun, fast-paced, and rooted in real entomology, on The Six-Legged Narrative.