Insect Minute
Insect Minute was a collaboration between the NC State Insect Museum and WKNC 88.1 FM to highlight interesting aspects of the world of entomology.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 1 minutes
- Episodes
- 11
- Years Active
- 2012
Social Insects
Bioluminescence
Medical Insects
Termites
Cockroaches
Bed Bugs
If you would like to find out more about bed bugs visit the museum’s website at insectmuseum.org where you also find information about our museum and read our blog where we talk about interesting stu…
Ticks
Tick Life Cycle from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Ticks find their hosts through detecting the breath, body odor or body heat of an animal or through questing. When a tick is questing fo…
Cicadas
Cicadas are found on every continent, with the exception of Antarctica. In fact, there are 2,600 described species in the world ranging from very large (110 mm) to relatively small (14 mm), most of …
The Biggest Insect
Aggggghhhh!! That is one big insect!!
To answer this question we need clarification, how do you quantify “biggest”? Insects are very diverse and they come in many shapes which means that the longest i…
The Arctic Woolly Bear Moth
Banded woolly bear - Photo by graftendno1
Never the less, there is a woolly bear caterpillar that does have a very interesting relationship with winter. It is called the Arctic woolly bear caterpillar…
The Wonderful World of Bees!
Bees are in the order Hymenoptera which also includes wasps, ants and sawflies. Bees and wasps are commonly confused with one another or perceived as names that are interchangeable. Bees and wasps sh…