Oh, hey, it's the mail that you haven't opened, sitting on your counter.

Allie Ward, this is Ologies, this is Dragonflies.

You did not know you needed an episode on that, but here we are.

Okay, this is, oh, it's so good.

Okay, so this guest is the only dragonfly expert I wanted for the job.

I've waited years to chat with her.

And she got her undergrad degree at the University of British Columbia, Department

of Zoology. She got a PhD at Rutgers in etymology and is currently a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where she serves as chair of the Division of Invertebrate Zoology.

Also, a professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate School.

She has been the president of the worldwide dragonfly association

and the Entomological Society of America, big deals, and the co-founder of entomologists in color.

She knows dragonflies. We're here to talk about them. Now, first off, Odenata sounds a little bit too

much like odontology, which is the study of teeth. And I always got that confused, but there's

a reason. Odinata means toothed ones. And it's the study of these big winged beauties that cause a lot

of feelings in us to be discussed. We will do that in a moment. But first, a huge thank you to

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