begonia society
music for science and civilization
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Antenna Alley
episode 1
Title: Latch Key Larvae
Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by GX Jupitter-Larsen called Bees and the Pollywave (http://jupitter-larsen.com)
Insect: Melissodes or the long-horn bee
Links: https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Melissodes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissodes
Broadcast date: Jan 15, 2024
Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/135934episode 2
Title: Smooth Criminal
Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Ian MacPhee (https://ianmacphee.bandcamp.com), Fame is a Bee (Emily Dickenson) read by Vicki Bennett (https://peoplelikeus.org)
Insect: Triepeolus cuckoo bee
Links: https://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Triepeolus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triepeolus, https://www.museumoftheearth.org/bees/behaviorBroadcast date: Jan 22, 2024
Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/136192episode 9
Title: Who are the Sticky Bugs?
Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Wobbly (https://www.detritus.net/wobbly), just a touchscreen FM synthesis patch.
Insect: cottony cushion scale and other scale insects
Links: https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/fruit/cottony_cushion_scale.htm, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_insect
Broadcast date: Mar 11, 2024
Marathon week!
Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/137770
episode 10
Title: Underwater Beetles
Music: Jana Winderen, Music from the ‘The Listener’, Second Nature, Caen and Perche, France. https://www.janawinderen.com/releases/the-listener. A hydrophone recording from the river ORNE in Normandie, close to Caen. The diver Marko narrated by Yon Visell.
Insect: Dytiscus latissimus and other predaceous diving beetles
Links: https://uk.inaturalist.org/taxa/99648-Dytiscus-latissimus
Broadcast date: Mar 18, 2024
Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138029
episode 11
Title: The Other Carpenter
Music: Musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Ed Sunspot (https://robertbeatty.bandcamp.com/album/as-ed-sunspot); Fame is a
Bee read by Hearty White (https://wfmu.org/playlists/HA)
Insect: Carpenter Bees!
Links: https://bugguide.net/node/view/13232; https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/carpenter_bees.shtml
Broadcast date: Mar 25, 2024
Archive Show Link: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138275
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Irene Moon at Cafe OTO, London
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
New publication about bees from Santa Cruz Island and UCSB
Happy to announce a new publication from our research group!
among three sympatric congeners native to the region, Halictus tripartitus, Halictus ligatus, and Halictus farinosus. Together, these results provide evidence for subtle phenotypic divergence in an island bee population. More broadly, these results emphasize the utility and potential of wing morphometrics for large-scale assessment of insect population structure.
Ostwald, M.M., Thrift, C.N. & Seltmann, K.C. (2023). Phenotypic divergence in an island bee population: Applying geometric morphometrics to discriminate population-level variation in wing venation. Ecology and Evolution, 13(5), e10085. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10085
Friday, August 19, 2022
Friday, February 25, 2022
Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon performing in Los Angeles for Touch 40
Sunday, January 23, 2022
A 5-Minute Hour
Irene Moon and the Begonia Society are part of the 2nd episode of GX Jupitter-Larsen's new online variety show, A 5-Minute Hour. We include a 1-minute Microtheter on various insects and other invertebrates. These are coming once a week from his studio and Irene Moon will be part of the next four (and hopefully more)!
The Macroptheter is small theater, generally filmed under a microscope and the actors are those that are more difficult to see.