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Subject: (Interview). Subtitle: Rex Cocroft. Timecode In: 00:04:05. Timecode out: 01:48:18. Notes: Treehoppers. Habitat: Rural. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: Bug Communication Log of DAT #: 4 Date: 1999 ng= not good ok= okay g = good vg = very good Absolute Time 0.00.00 -0.00.32 recorded silence 0.00.32 -0.00.53 preparing tape. 0.00.53 -0.01.29 messing with mic 0.01.29 -0.03.24 still preparing mic, changing levels, taping the mic, etc. 0.03.24 -0.04.04 AC: Okay, so what we're doing here is waiting for an airplane mic bumping, set-up ... 0.04.04 -0.05.24 [walking in field] AC: So, we're going to go off and walk across this field and using these butterfly nets, we're going to catch some things to put on a goldenrod and listen to that? RC: Sure, We've made the claim that there are lots of insects out there singing on these plants, so we're going to try to substantiate that if we can by going out and catching things and putting them on a plant, and seeing what we get. AC: all right. How hard is it to catch insects out here? RC: Not hard -you'll sweep your net a few times and you'll have it full of insects, and we can pull out a few that are likely songsters like leafhoppers or treehoppers or um AC: You've given me here something that I've always imagined using, a genuine butterfly net, the kind you see in cartoons, I mean it's this great long stocking kind of thing on the end of a pole. RC: Well, it's a good ticket if you have to be trespassing on somebody's property because you either look slightly crazy or slightly sinister, but in either case pretty harmless to other people, so they tend to be suspicious of somebody wandering around, but once they see you with an insect net, they know you're just kind of a harmless nut. Which is generally true. 0.05.24 -0.06.16 AC: So now just in front of us there's this little meadow here bordered with trees all around it and in the middle it's just all golden, I guess that is goldenrod, RC: Yeah, that is goldenrod, and that supports a whole community of insects... AC: Queen Anne's Lace out there too and some other things growing up in the middle. RC: Okay, so there's a place here where I saw a few treehoppers the other day so let's stop and look on these goldenrod stems, AC: Right there? Right there. No that's not anything, is it. [mic noise] 0.06.16 -0.06.39 clap slate 0.06.39 -0.08.00 RC: All right, well I don't see any males in this little patch, so maybe what we can do now is just do a little sweeping of the vegetation [sound of sweeping through tall plants] Alex and Rex chat as they do that, dog pants. 0.08.00 -0.10.01 RC: [looking through his net] Spiders ... okay, here's a little leafhopper in here, might be a good [something] see, This well, let me see if I can put it in a little vial, and ... yeah.. Alex and Rex chat some more about the insects that they have in their nets. 0.10.01 -0.10.35 AC: So we've got the female, and a male. RC: Different kinds of bugs - AC: different kinds, wasn't that first one a treehopper, but it was a different treehopper. .. RC: Yeah, and this is a leafhopper and leafhoppers are psychadilids, they're related, they're pretty closely related, might be even each other's closest relatives, but there're about 30,000 or so species of leafhoppers, most of which have never been listened to, 0.10.35 -0.10.56 Alex and Rex talk about a ladybug (middle ground, chatty) 0.10.56 -0.11.25 AC: But you've never listened to a lady bug? RC: I've never listened to a lady bug - AC: eeh, she just flew away anyway. RC: There are some beetles that are known to have, to either astrigulate, and make sounds, or at least they have the apparatus they can make the sounds with, but I've never listened to them very m... (Notes truncated)
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- 8 Oct 2009 - Ben Brotman
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