3-Minute Insect Essential #48 from the INSECT NEWS NETWORK

INSECTS IN CINEMA (INN #48). To hear the full broadcast, visit www.insectnewsnetwork.com and type in #48 into the search bar.

On this episode of the INN I look at a dozen movies that feature insects as metaphor for a wide array of social issues including, the life of a comatose editor of Elle Magazine, the revolutionary Mirabal sisters who struggled against the bloody Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic, the notion of transgender parenting in Thailand and an Aspergerger child coping with the loss of his father in the tragedy of the Twin Towers collapse during the attack on 9/11.

I also have the Top 5 Hexapod Headlines which explore coffee as a future non-toxic pesticide and how insects use plants as telephones. We also get a report on the controversy of genetic manipulation in insects by field correspondent Jared Heiftz.