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What's Bugging You? August 15, 2017

Dr. Beverly Burden, answers your questions
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Dr. Beverly Burden

Airs Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at 6 p.m. Once again Dr. Beverly Burden, an Associate Professor of Biology at LSUS and our resident entomologist, joined Bill Beckett to discuss our insect world, both friendly and fiendish. We'll talk about what's new in the insect world and we'll took forward to your calls and questions about "What's Bugging You" at 800-552-8502.

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                                          These Images were submitted by a listener 

Credit Juli Ramsey
Ground Beetle with captured green tree cricket under his body. You can see the green legs and part of the body under the beetle.

Assassin bug with some type of prey being carried. Not the dark patch obscuring the back part of the Assassin bug.
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Credit Juli Ramsey
Immature true feeding on a stem

Dr. Beverly J Burden is an Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at LSU Shreveport and our resident gust expert for our occasional series What's Bugging You. Contact her at beverly.burden@lsus.edu