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Jul 2020
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Are Cicadas The Only Ones Having a Hawt ...

Sony Music Entertainment / Jonathan Van Ness
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On this week’s Getting Curious, Jonathan is taking the creepy out of crawly with entomologist and evolutionary biologist Dr. Jessica Ware. We’re talking periodical cicadas, cockroaches, dragonflies, and more. Dr. Ware is a curator of Odonata and non-Holometabolous insect orders at the American Museum of Natural History, New York and a professor at the Richar ... Show More
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