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Let's Get Entomological: It's The Bug Show

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"Vermont Edition" gets up close and personal with dragonflies and other insects on this latest bug show.

They're out there, again. Bees, borers and butterflies. Dragonflies, damselflies and dobsonflies. And now Vermont Edition is ready to get up close and personal with all of them.
Writer and field naturalist Bryan Pfeiffer, an adjunct faculty member in the Field Naturalist Program at UVM, and Kent McFarland, conservation biologist at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies and host of VPR's Outdoor Radio, both join the program to discuss monarch butterfly populations, the effects of the emerald ash borer on other insects and the plight of the bumblebee. Plus, they'll answer your questions.

And enjoy this piece by Steve Zind on the Cluster Fly.

Broadcast on Monday, June 18, 2018 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

Ric was a producer for Vermont Edition and host of the VPR Cafe.
Jane Lindholm is the host, executive producer and creator of But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids. In addition to her work on our international kids show, she produces special projects for Vermont Public. Until March 2021, she was host and editor of the award-winning Vermont Public program Vermont Edition.
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