Worm Wars! Invasive species and the stories we tell about them

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When a producer learns about a "toxic, self-cloning worm”, she starts sounding the alarm about impending eco-doom. Until, that is, state experts clue her into the "real threat".

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Nate Hegey, this is Outside In.
0:04.0	We featured a lot of cool animals on the show lately.
0:07.5	Groundhogs, possums, cuddlefish.
0:11.7	Okay, so I guess we don't have cuddlefish sound effects.
0:16.5	Pretty sure that was a whale.
0:19.3	Anyways, some of these animals are more easily identified with than others, so we asked
0:25.1	you, do you have any animals that you relate to?
0:28.6	Hi, my name is Belana and I live in Southwest Pennsylvania.
0:32.2	Belana was at a state park once with her family when they saw something rustling in the top
0:36.0	of a tree.
0:37.2	And we get on our binoculars and we realize that it is a porcupine.
0:40.9	Later she discovered that it's not uncommon for porcupines to walk out to the end of a branch,
0:45.8	looking for a snack, fall out, and then literally impale themselves on their own quills.
0:51.6	And I just really relate to them.
0:53.4	They're these solitary creatures that just want to sleep and eat and they're their own
1:00.4	worst enemy.
1:01.4	They're just big, clumsy snackers.
1:06.8	If we ever do an episode on porcupines, that's definitely going to be the title.
1:11.4	Okay, here's one more.
1:13.7	Outside In Listener Lena said that after they moved from Brooklyn to Vermont for college,
1:17.8	they were feeling lost and confused about who they were.
1:20.7	Then after me and I found myself walking around in the woods with some new friends, I heard
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