Hello everyone. Welcome to TalkNurdy. I am your host Kara Santa Maria and

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figured it out for your very generous donation week after week I also want to

thank for your amazing support Rob Barcy, Brian Holden, Jeffrey Sewell, and Chuck Pell.

And I also want to thank the many of you for your support that I can't even name because there's so many amazing

supporters on Patreon right now. Let me see how many are we at right now? 54 patrons. You guys you're amazing. Thank you so so so much. On that

note I want to introduce you to this week's guest. He is an entomologist with rainforest expeditions and in case you didn't

know that means bugs. Here he is Aaron Pomerance.

Aaron, thank you so much for braving the traffic from the West Side to come to

Shay Santa Maria and chat with me today. Of course, thanks for having me.

I'm excited because I feel like, okay, I either first met you at Yuaku with the

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