Ep. 358 - Oaks, Wasps, Galls, and Ants
In Defense of Plants Podcast
In Defense of Plants
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What started as a question about some strange "seeds" in ant ant nest turned into an explosion of scientific investigations into the links between oaks, gall wasps, and ants. Join Dr. Robert Warren and me as we discuss the mind-blowing evolutionary insights that can come from natural history observations and what they could mean for seed dispersal in spring ephemerals. This episode was produced in part by Pamela, Peter, Andrea, Nathan, Karyn, Michelle, Jillian, Chellie, Linda, Laura, Miz Holly, Christie, Carlos, Paleo Fern, Levi, Sylvia, Lanny, Ben, Lily, Craig, Sarah, Lor, Monika, Brandon, Jeremy, Suzanne, Kristina, Christine, Silas, Michael, Aristia, Felicidad, Lauren, Danielle, Allie, Jeffrey, Amanda, Tommy, Marcel, C Leigh, Karma, Shelby, Christopher, Alvin, Arek, Chellie, Dani, Paul, Dani, Tara, Elly, Colleen, Natalie, Nathan, Ario, Laura, Cari, Margaret, Mary, Connor, Nathan, Jan, Jerome, Brian, Azomonas, Ellie, University Greens, Joseph, Melody, Patricia, Matthew, Garrett, John, Ashley, Cathrine, Melvin, OrangeJulian, Porter, Jules, Griff, Joan, Megan, Marabeth, Les, Ali, Southside Plants, Keiko, Robert, Bryce, Wilma, Amanda, Helen, Mikey, Michelle, German, Joerg, Cathy, Tate, Steve, Kae, Carole, Mr. Keith Santner, Lynn, Aaron, Sara, Kenned, Brett, Jocelyn, Ethan, Sheryl, Runaway Goldfish, Ryan, Chris, Alana, Rachel, Joanna, Lori, Paul, Griff, Matthew, Bobby, Vaibhav, Steven, Joseph, Brandon, Liam, Hall, Jared, Brandon, Christina, Carly, Kazys, Stephen, Katherine, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, Manny, doeg, Daniel, Tim, Philip, Tim, Lisa, Brodie, Bendix, Irene, holly, Sara, and Margie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome to the Indefense of Plants podcast, the official podcast of Indefensiveplants.com. |
| 0:05.8 | What's up? This is your host, Matt. Welcome to the show. How's everyone doing this week? |
| 0:09.6 | I'm doing great because my friend, Dr. Robert Warren, returns to the podcast and this time he's talking |
| 0:15.1 | about an amazing evolutionary system that he and a bunch of colleagues have stumbled upon and really revealed some |
| 0:22.0 | fascinating insights into. It involves oaks, wasps, galls, and ants. But before we get into that, |
| 0:30.0 | I do have a quick message from our friends over at Radio Lab. Hey, there's a bunch of really great |
| 0:35.7 | stuff here to suck on. What? |
| 0:39.7 | On Radio Lab, we're going up. These trees are huge. |
| 0:41.3 | Into the treetops. |
| 0:42.3 | It was like being a detective. |
| 0:43.3 | To chase a mystery. |
| 0:45.3 | There's something going on up here. |
| 0:46.3 | What's about to happen? |
| 0:48.3 | Oh my gosh. |
| 0:49.3 | And stumble into a secret garden. |
| 0:52.3 | This is amazing. |
| 0:53.3 | I know, I know. Whoa. |
| 0:55.0 | In the sky. |
| 0:58.8 | Forests on forests. |
| 1:00.9 | Listen wherever you get podcasts. |
| 1:03.2 | All right, as I said before, make sure you subscribe to that podcast. |
| 1:07.0 | It is wonderful. |
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