Nick Petrichow

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224 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5 Aug

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Nature Podcast · Junk plastic turns into high-value commodity with chemistry trick · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

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Nature Podcast · Briefing Chat: Orcas smashed a sunfish to bits — researchers aren't sure why · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

I'm doing well, Ben.

How's it going for you?

No, I imagine so.

I mean, many people will be aware of the fact that many insects are not known to science and there's a lot of them and they're all quite small, so it's hard to get sort of an assessment of them.

But I'm guessing that they've tried to do that in the Amazon.

Is that what you're hinting at?

Yeah, and the ecosystem can vary quite a lot between the canopy to the ground as well, especially for insects for whom the ecosystem can be like just a little bit of a tree.

You said that their goal is to catalogue every insect species, but that sounds like it would only capture the flying ones.

What are they doing about other insects?

I mean it sounds like a heroic effort and, you know, an important one to know what insects are there, but do they think it could have other impacts?

Could it tell us a little bit more about the overall ecosystem and how it works?

Yeah, yeah, no, certainly.

And, you know, I imagine that the Amazon is a vast area, has a lot of different ecosystems and different places that insects could live.

So yeah, it could be, as you say, a mind boggling number and I'm sure it'll be a lot of work for them to carry forward to the future.

But I am curious about some of the examples that they might have found.

Can you tell me about some of the cool things?

Wow.

I think this really does show like, you know, w how much we don't know about the Amazon.

But hopefully we'll learn a little bit more about it from this gargantuan effort.

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