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For centuries, human commerce has played a role in distributing plant and animal species around the globe. But not every species can claim the title of circumnavigator. In this week’s episode, Ari Daniel Shapiro journeys to the Gulf Coast of the U.S. to meet a tiny Magellan, the star of an unlikely story that has come full circle. Download a transcript of this podcast read moreDuration: 5:29Published: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:20:00 +0000

Like moths to a flame, some people are irresistibly drawn to the woods at night. Carrying bed sheets and armed with special lights and lures, they come seeking moths. In July 2012, in 49 states and numerous countries across the world, scientists and ordinary folk alike fanned out to get a closer look at these insects during the first ever National Moth Week - now an annual event across the world. National Moth Week 2013 is July 20-28. Learn more at: http://nationalmothweek.org/ read moreDuration: 5:29Published: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 20:29:33 +0000

As they wing their way across North America, millions of migrating monarch butterflies form a living river of orange. In this episode, the second of two podcasts on monarchs, we’ll meet citizens young and old who are dipping a toe in that river in the name of science and of beauty. Download a transcript of this podcast Image Credit: Victoria Reeder, iNaturalist.org. CC BY-NC-SA read moreDuration: 5:29Published: Tue, 14 May 2013 17:51:37 +0000

Every year monarch butterflies begin a journey north from their overwintering grounds in Mexican forests. The epic migration spans generations and the better part of a continent. In this first of two episodes, we’ll meet a pair of women united by their fascination with this iconic insect. Mexican geographer Isabel Ramírez and American biologist Karen Oberhauser are working to save monarch habitat on both ends of this remarkable insect’s 2,500 mile journey. Ari Daniel Shapiro reports. read moreDuration: 5:30Published: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:25:56 +0000

In this episode, EOL education director Marie Studer journeys to Costa Rica to experience firsthand the astonishing variety of insect life in this tiny Central American nation—20,000 different kinds of butterflies and moths alone! read moreDuration: 4:52Published: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:23:37 +0000

How much trouble can an unassuming black beetle no bigger than your fingernail be? Plenty, as we learn in this episode of One Species at a Time. Tiny stowaways like the European Gazelle beetle are arriving on container ships and wreaking havoc with native ecosystems. Long-standing pests like the gypsy moth have been joined by new exotic species that are crowding out North American fauna. Ari Daniel Shapiro journeys to the forests of Oregon to meet the beetles. Download a transcript of this podcast read moreDuration: 5:01Published: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:39:40 +0000