3-Minute Insect Essential #25 from the INSECT NEWS NETWORK
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CONSERVATION AND CITIZEN SCIENCE: Bee Count, Metalmark. Xerces Society and Flower-Loving Flies (INN Radio #25). To hear the full show, visit www.insectnewsnetwork.com and type in the number 25 - that's pound 25 in the search bar.
Precocious but never busy, The aromatics are downright huge on the entry, filled with warm winter spice notes of cinnamon and clove that accompany baked plum, currant, cassis. That's the description of a 2009 Cabernet Savignon from Wine Spectator magazine.
Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel. That's the description of the sting of a bullet ant according to the Schmidt Pain Index.
It's a tongue in cheek rating system for invertebrate stings created by entomologist Erich Schmidt.
It's just one of the things I cover on today's INN, It;s all about Conservation and Citizen Science. The INN was preparing for the Great Bee Count the national honeybee census that we were hosting online with YourGarden Show.com. Its a reprise of the Bee A Thon I hosted last year the first ever online marathon to raise awareness about insects and their conservation. I also discuss the IUCN Red List - the most threatened animals on the planet. IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature,This past year there were over 4000 threatened insects, over 2 dozen in 2012 alone.