2024-11-06
1 小时 14 分钟They’re acrobatic fliers with long bodies and veined wings and their babies breathe through their butts: dragonflies. Let’s get into the difference between a damselfly and dragonfly, how fast they dart around, how big they were in the age of the dinosaurs, sci-fi aviation inspiration, mating choreography, attracting them to your yard (maybe to eat them) and lots more with scholar, American Museum of Natural History curator, and dragonfly expert: Dr. Jessica Ware.
Oh, hey, it's the mail that you haven't opened sitting on your counter.
Alie Ward.
This is ologies.
This is dragonflies.
You did not know you needed an episode on that, but here we are.
Okay, this is oh so good.
Okay, so this guest is the only dragonfly expert I wanted for the job.
I've waited years to chat with her.
And she got her undergrad degree at the University of British Columbia Department of Zoology.
She got a PhD at Rutgers in Etymology and is currently a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where she serves as chair of the Division of Invertebrate Zoology.
Also also a professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School.
She has been the president of the Worldwide Dragonfly association and the Entomological Society of America.
Big deals.
And the co founder of Entomologists in Color.
She knows dragonflies.
We're here to talk about them.
Now, first off, Odonata sounds a little bit too much like odontology, which is the study of teeth, and I always got that confused.
But there's a reason Odonata means toothed ones.
And it's the study of these big winged beauties that cause a lot of feelings in us to be discussed.
We will do that in a moment.