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The Bug Chicks

The Bug Chicks are entomologists Kristie Reddick, M.S., and Jessica Honaker, M.S. Why this name? We use “Bug” because that’s the word that most people use when they think about animals with exoskeletons and segmented legs. Most people don’t know the word ‘arthropod,’ so we use the word they use and then we teach them the right word. Why “Chicks”? Some people hate this word and think it’s derogatory towards women (and it can be used that way), but we reclaimed it. To us, it means fun, cool women who don’t take themselves too seriously. So instead of “The Arthropod Ladies” or the “Animals-with-Exoskeletons Girls” we chose “The Bug Chicks.”

Two women, one blonde-haired and the other brown-haired, stand in front of a tree in a forest.
The Insect Orders
Episode 15
6 minutes 19 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two moths, one gray and the other speckled white-and-black, snack on a plate of cut-up honeydew, starfruit, and melons, which are also covered in small fruit flies.
The Insect Orders
Episode 20
9 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a green praying mantis devouring a cricket from the middle of a yellow flower, whose petals surround them.
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Episode 19
5 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brown-haired woman wearing a black jacket speaks to us while standing in a park near recreational pull-up bars.
The Insect Orders
Episode 16
5 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a brown-and-white segmented insect crawling on human skin. Caption reads: "Lacewing larva biting Kristie's finger."
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Episode 8
6 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a thick-bodied dragonfly perched on the finger of the show host.
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Episode 21
5 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Brown and tan grasshopper with yellow antennae perches on top of a rough red rock.
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Episode 12
6 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two women sit on a park bench in front of a mulched area with trees. The blonde-haired woman speaks to us while the brown-haired one looks at her and listens.
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Episode 4
5 minutes 1 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of a louse, whose hairy body has an elongated abdomen, six legs resembling crab claws emerging from a short thorax, and a pointed head with antennae.
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Episode 17
9 minutes 46 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Close-up of a clump of white fur with a black flea right in the middle.
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Episode 9
8 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
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Illustration shows a gray-toned drawing of a silverfish, with a long segmented body, six short legs, two long antennae on its head, and three long bristles forming a tail. A blue star-shaped icon in the corner says, "cellulase."
The Insect Orders
Episode 5
3 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a black-and-white line drawing of the beginning of a caddisfly's life cycle, with an arrow pointing from a rounded speckled clump to a pupa emerging from a case.
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Episode 18
7 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of a honey bee with two blue arrows connected at one end pointing towards each wing.
5 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Closeup of a slug with arrows labeling its optical and sensory tentacles at the front, its mantle in the middle, and its keel towards the back.
1 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 2 - 5
Two women sit at a table outdoors. One looks down at a tarantula crawling in her hands while the other looks at us.
5 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Molting tarantula lies on its back between webs as it sheds its skin.
1 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
Still image from: You're Hired
3 minutes 58 seconds
Grade Level: 4 - 8
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