Entomology Activities and Links
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If you come across an excellent resource, let us know at hello@harborandsprout.com so we can add it to the list!Why are there so many Insects?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ivZ6GSaK1M
Insects Live Where?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jejgP_u82Qo
How Insects Adapt to their Environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnZMIi7Fd2Y
Insect External and Internal Structure and Function: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYh5Csdf7lo
Anatomy of Insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK-GyL4wsK0
Cicada Molting from Shell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v91hk6ppKqY
Insect Vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpt0XN_G8Tc&list=PLz4SqlFlbuAeqeQ3AznXGbO7cASwIOJJZ
Digestive System of an Insect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sWQZHz7cS0
Insect Circulatory Systems Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUEMZo5Kqj4
Male and Female Reproductive System of an Insect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_wGYmTTg2w
Insect Nervous System: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p48s9j4HalU&t=302s
Why the Insect Brain is So Incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQw3TNRnJ1I
Sir John Lawton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hewXjK96f6w
Flower Structures and Functions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkzFimUJdD8
Here’s how Insects Coax Plants into Making Galls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXGbAFKoUY8
Why Insects and Plants Have a Complicated Relationship:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4g38uWvYGk
What is Herbivory? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTXqPdOxiE4
The Relationship Between Insects and Plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hNzG_Noel4
Symbiosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AM3ARs9MMg
How Bees and Flowers Help Each Other: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkoWzKcWAWo
Nutrient Cycling by Insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlu57jYQ6_E
How Insects Uniquely Adapt to Their Habitats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnZMIi7Fd2Y&t=39s
Why Insects Are the Most Successful Species on Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbp8LdHbzB8
A Bug’s Life: The Amazing Adaptations of Insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHksaXjMy0c
Creepy Crawlies: The Fascinating History of Entomology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le9KAy8VNCc
How Medieval Peasants Controlled Mosquitoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5NnZ8SgyAQ
10 Easy Ways Medieval Peasants Got Rid of Bed Bugs and Cockroaches: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sq0Nx-f9kk
Ulisse Aldrovandi & his World of Wonders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igFlo2dHcUw
A Brief History of the Microscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjcewKLlb2Y
Biography of Jan Swammerdam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhzO_ss5Qd4
Biography of Marcello Malpighi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Jp-WA87eg
Maria Sybilla Merian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5PyrJUmKXM
Petiver the Natural Historian (podcast): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF9gZnU7smA
Eleanor Glanville: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rnb530BboE
John Ray Biography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD23CgSyr4c
Carl Linnaeus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcA7wuOkBvc&t=4s
CSTMS: Mary Terrall on René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDgSo1-_b-E
The Ensnaring Strands of Spider Silk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08Fh7Vo9vA
Book of Insects: Chapter 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM2ea5_QWv4
Darwin’s Contributions to Entomology: https://youtu.be/wVEARmwCI6Q
Island Adventurer: Alfred Russel Wallace:
Cultural Entomology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNkwUkvHn4M
Insects in Human Cultures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vp_JyJBL-k
The Crazy Science Behind Insect Plagues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtE9Mkodi48
Insect Plagues and How They Start:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBVOHwKsQBQ
The Silk Road: https://youtu.be/PAu5SLSLXxU
Understanding Pests and Diseases of Silkworm:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfoEXDSSs8
The Dark and Deadly History of the Plague: https://youtu.be/U02uJ5tm7WE
Insect Vector-Borne Diseases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WH_QvMIJfY
Bitten! Mosquito-Borne Disease and You:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnvIsbm-gIg
Protecting Pollinators from Common Threats:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhFdyOlC1hw
Pollinators Under Pressure:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9uwzrPO51w&t=79s
Applied Entomology Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48X935DAd0&list=PLcCIZORoVQgjyXBP4Ezo6xBjv16EPdPR7
Integrated Pest Management: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48X935DAd0&list=PLcCIZORoVQgjyXBP4Ezo6xBjv16EPdPR7
Insect Vector-Borne Diseases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WH_QvMIJfY&t=79s
Companion Animal-Vector Borne Diseases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1P3QupjhYo&t=22s
Mosquito-Borne Diseases: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P-UndMrXac
10 Beneficial Insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai8XRf_wYjA
The Insect World is Loaded with Nightmare Fuel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjRNxvSO4-Y
Forensic Entomotoxicology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQM5qgvnLZY
The Future of Food, Eating Insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2sDrJ8AOzU
The Differences Between Myths and Folklore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpLqEKLrxnc&t=409s
Hopi Butterfly Dance 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPyP2GLjrBE
Moth Folklore: https://youtu.be/flwcbB4IUUc
Finnish Mythology: The Dragonfly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qugHkqhfAf8
What Dragonflies Mean Spiritually: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tQufeHslIgE
Dragonfly Symbolism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akvfs6pn1pA&t=37s
Hopi Legends, Ant People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hht2vcb-MJw&t=98s
Bees in Mythology and Folklore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtXKNJk7C-8
Tears of Ra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPXNgpp_DLo
American Folk Music Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfzAl0yVUzE
Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g-U3v_qpJ4
Barbara Allen (Joan Baez): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKIOkSe2kXY
Great Composers: Béla Bartók: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KOw8j5iGkE
Béla Bartók - Romanian Folk Dances for String Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50Ooqv1GFg
Mikrokosmos, BB 105, Vol. 6: No. 142. From the Diary of a Fly:
Mikrokosmos, Complete: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJXnj55_BzI
Insects as Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oC-H3YQdfc
Cochineal Bugs as Dye: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YzM1Edb6mo
History@Home: Victorian Insect Art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0LBCtc2qKQ
The Ensnaring Strands of Spider Silk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-08Fh7Vo9vA&t=84s
10 Amazing Beetles Looking Like Jewelry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBVD6kajctU
Jewelry from Insects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO_l6WxOboM
Lost-wax molding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDfRU_t-umA&t=62s
Shelf-life of honey: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iJLfFer_h-Q?app=desktop
Maria Sybilla Merian: https://youtu.be/3WiwkwW18uY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thOifuHs6eY
What is the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tv6Ej6JVho
The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjSHVDfXHQ4
Why are Periodical Cicadas so…Periodical? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_zV2Ll3wpg
True Facts! Bees that Play with Balls and Do Math: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hGjh9SJ_M
Literary devices, definitions, and examples: https://writers.com/common-literary-devices
Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth by Michael Engel S
Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. the Ones Who Run Our World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Smithsonian Handbook of Interesting Insects by Gavin Broad, Blanca Huertas, Ashley Kirk-Spriggs, Dmitry Telnov
Moths of the World: A Natural History by David L. Wagner
A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt by Gene Kritsky
Fabre's Book of Insects by Jean-Henri Fabre
The Insect Crisis: Our Fragile Dependence on the Planet's Smallest Creatures by Oliver Milman
Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis: One Woman's Discovery of the Transformation of Butterflies and Insects by Maria Sibylla