Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Banness and every week I sit down for a 40 minute conversation

But it's never 40 minutes anymore and I can't help it because I got so many questions

With a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious

This week we are re-earing a very special episode with one of my very favorite people in the world

Dr. Jessica Ware from June 2020 where I asked her our cicadas party in like it's 2004

Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Banness, I'm so excited for today's episode

There is a lot to digest and a lot to process in the world and sometimes you just need to get into that science

So you can just like keep learning

But just give yourself a bit of variety. So with that being said welcome Dr. Jessica Ware

You are an entomologist and evolutionary biologist

You're a creator of the Odinata and non-Holometabulous insect orders at the American Museum of Natural History New York and

Professor at the Richard Gilder graduate school and this is also I just think one of the most amazing things is

You're the also the VP elect of the Entomological Society of America and the president of the Worldwide Dragonfly Association

You got credits on credits with the side of credits all in caps lock like with some other pretty fun, too

So thank you so much for taking your time to come talk to us Dr. Jessica Ware

Thank you for having me. I got to say if you call me and ask me to talk about Dragonfly's or insects

I will be there in five seconds because I think talking about insects is one of the best and most fun past times

So I'm ready. I'm excited. Oh, yeah, I can't wait. So okay. This is kind of where this episode started from came from

This is why I wanted to have you on so I think you know, we were all in quarantine and then we started reading those

articles about all the cicadas coming up in Virginia and like West Virginia and then that made me think about this time in

1996 in Quincy, Illinois like where I'm from and like my family had moved out to this farm

And I remember like the second week we got there

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