3-Minute Insect Essential #53 from the INSECT NEWS NETWORK

Connecting the WorldWide Wonderful to the WorldWide Weird w/ Edgar Ortega from the CA Bug Club and Summer Rayne Oakes (INN #53 1/11/13). To get connected to those groups - and to hear the full broadcast - go to www.insectnewsnetwork.com and type ion #53 that's pound 5-3.

Next time you are enjoying a glass of wine with friends, you probably won't be thinking about fleas - but after today's show, you might.

One of the heirs to the Rothschild fortune- which encompasses banking, mining, energy and - yes - wine - was Miram rothschiild. Not only was she a devoted scientist of Siphonoptera - the bouncing bounding biting fleas - she was the first person to describe their jumping mechanics, notorious for the highest leap in the animal world.

Hi everyone this is Emmet Brady with another Insect Essential from the Insect News Network. and on this episode I take a practical look at the human-insect connection by Connecting the WorldWide Wonderful to the WW Weird, discussing all the organizations around the world that advocate on behalf of the little buggers. Remember that often times insects are themselves a platform to talk about other topics important to human beings. I talk about the Entomological Society of America, The Royla Entomological Society (that's the group that Heir Rothschild belonged to) and the (IABE) International Association of Black Entomologists.

I am very pleased to have on the show Edgar Ortega, lifelong insect enthusiast and founder of the CA Bug Club, which meets for the first time in 2013. We discuss h the San Francisco Tarantula party, and the discovery of vegetarian spiders AND the most-legged millipede in history - found this past year in - of all places - Silicon Valley

I also finish the show playing a segment from the world's first entomologist super model - Summer Rayne Oakes and her powerful and gripping documentary eXtinction.