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Back with an episode of allergies, I'm so proud of you that you're listening to. You're doing it.

Maybe you thought, no way in hell word.

Okay, fine. Or perhaps maybe you're listening with your arms crossed over your chest, saying,

make me like wasps. I dare you, you can't do it. Watch me, wasp me. Watch me do it. First off,

okay, how many species of wasp can you name? I know you're like yellowjacket hornets, the big

mean hornets, the paper wasp. Maybe you've said the mud dober. That's what five right there. Oh,

I'm sorry. There's tens of thousands of described wasp species. So many uncategorized undiscovered ones,

they are like the tiny sharks of the air. They're feared apex predators who get a batter app and most of them

will not harm you. So hating on wasps so yesterday, so gauche. So we're going to dig in. This

ologist is a natural history writer, the principal author on the Kaufman field guide to insects of North

America. He has been a professional entomologist at the Oregon Zoo, the Cincinnati Zoo, the Smithsonian

institution. I have wanted to talk wasps for years with him, but we wanted to wait until his new book

dropped and it's called wasps, the astonishing diversity of a misunderstood instinct. And it did

just drop. It just came out in March. So we will chat. But first, we will thank patrons at patreon.com

such allergies for supporting the show. It will cost you a cool dollar a month to join and submit your

questions. And thanks to everyone leaving reviews, which keep the show kicking ass in the charts.

We're going to read a freshie, which we do every week. This one is from floodball who left the apple

review. I'm a medical student in need of worldly wisdom in this podcast has absolutely changed my

life. No other words, I love you floodball. I love you back. You're about to love wasps.

Honk or down. So this totally unpronounceable allergy is derived from the Greek word for wasp.

Although so many people online just use the term waspology. We're going to discuss. We'll also cover

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