Oh, hey, it's that skin on the top of your cold hot chocolate. I'm Ali Ward. This is Ologies.

And if you missed last week's Minnesota announcement, okay, so our shorter kid-friendly

episodes, they're called Smologies. It's its own show. We launched

another show. It has its own feed. You can subscribe to Smologies anywhere. You

find podcasts. You can look for this colorful new logo with a bird and a frog on it. Tell everyone you know who needs

Podcasts for the littler ones or work where we don't swear we keep it classroom safe.

So that's homologies, but this this is ologies, which means we talk about the weirder stuff,

that's the way I like it. So this week it's a long time love of mine. It's Mantises. We're going to figure it out.

I met this guest via Instagram and within a minute of seeing his page.

I messaged. I begged him to talk to me. 36 hours later he was recording this and my life is better for it. So he graduated from

UC Davis in entomology and is now getting his masters at Tosen University in

Maryland with a PhD up next on his list but already has two published papers and is known in

entomology circles as a mantis expert. When a mantis expert is quoted in the

media, there's a good chance it's him. He's been studying and keeping Mantises for 15 years and even has

the handle Mentodeology on Instagram. Legit. So we're going to chat with him in a few but first thank you

patrons for supporting the show at

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So please take us with you this summer.

And thank you to everyone who leaves reviews which helped the show so much.

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