Click play to listen. Recorded on November 8, 2009.
Face it: bugs are just funny. All those legs, the pullulating antennae, the shiny carapace, their general squishiness, the way they freak us out. May Berenbaum’s day job is professor of entomology at the University of Illinois; on the side, she’s the humor columnist for the American Entomologist, contemplating everything from cockroach farts to bug-squashing erotica. Writer Amy Leach, a regular contributor to A Public Space, is working on a book about caterpillars, pea tendrils, and the moon. Together they muse on the scientific and comic sides of insect life, as well as the intersection of the two.
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