It’s time for another Good Growing Halloween Spooktacular! We’re all dressed up again this year to talk about some creepy crawlies that have had or are still having an impact on humans or have a lot of lore behind them, including black widow and brown recluse spiders, stinging caterpillars, oriental rat fleas, lice, and more!  

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  00:41 – Welcome, Ken. What are our costumes this year?

  02:50 – Black widow spiders

  11:30 – Brown recluse spider

    15:50 – Identifying brown recluse spiders

  18:30 – Venomous vs poisonous

  19:20 – Stinging caterpillars

    22:40 - Saddleback caterpillar

    24:55 - Puss caterpillar

  28:30 – Oriental rat flea and plague

  35:47 – Lice

    36:25 – Body lice

    39:30 – Head lice

    41:30 – Pubic lice

  45:22 – Wrap-up, thank yous, what’s up next week, and goodbye!

Southern black widow (University of Florida) - https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/spiders/black_widow_spider.htm 

Brown recluse (Colorado State University) - https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/insects/brown-recluse-spiders-in-colorado-recognition-and-spiders-of-similar-appearance-5-607/ 

CDC lice guidelines - https://www.cdc.gov/lice/caring-head/index.html 

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Ken Johnson: kjohnso@illinois.edu 

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