The

The Hi, everybody, it's Ellen Weatherford.

And we're here with just the zoo of us, your favorite animal review

podcast, where our cat scratches underneath the door while we're trying to record. I think this

one might be the dog. Oh, it's one of them, isn't it? Where we get no peace from either of the

goblins that inhabit our house. On any day ending in why.

We take your favorite animals and review them by rating them out of 10 in the categories of effectiveness, ingenuity, and aesthetics.

We are not zoological experts, but we try our best to get the most accurate information

we can.

Speaking of which, Speaking of which...

We do have a follow-up to our last episode that we did together in which you have

been scolded.

Yes.

In our last episode together, I discussed the spotted lanternfly, which is a notorious,

infamous invasive species.

And one of the things we talked about was a potential solution to that that is being

researched right now that involves introducing wasps, which are native to the spotted

lanternfly's homeland.

And we kind of joked around that that often leads to a little old lady who swallowed the fly situation

where then the introduced species themselves becomes a problem in their own right and so we

heard back from a friend of ours emily bell um love emily long time listeners will recognize her

from our green anole episode a long time ago.

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