3-Minute Insect Essential #9 from the INSECT NEWS NETWORK
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THE FEAR & THE BEAUTY: Hexapod Headlines, Insectopedia, Phobias, Aesthetics – INN #9. To hear the full show, visit www.insectnewsnetwork.com and type in the number 9 - that's pound 9 in the search bar.
What do Cupid, Justin Timberlake and the DeYoung Museum in the heart of Golden Gate Park have in common?
If you guessed that they all have to do with the theme of today’s INSECT NEWS NETWORK you are absolutely correct. Because what I explore on the show is the diametric polarizing disputation about how humans feel about our 6- and 8-legged coexistors. I look at the Fear and the Beauty of Insects.
For the record, Justin Timberlake is reportedly deathly afraid of spiders. Too bad for him. I guess we won't be having him on the show anytime soon.
The Top 5 Hexapod headlines are little bit scary: spiders that invade a town in India, aphids going berserk and traipsing across the American countryside, and yes modern clinical research to combat arachnophobia/
But then I look at the inspiring beauty that can be found in bugs as well, in particular the butterflies.