- 28
- Episodes
- 8
- Transcribed
- 112
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Up From Dust
Trees are swallowing prairies. Rivers are losing their fish. And stars are disappearing from view. Humans broke the environment — but we can heal some of the damage. Up From Dust is a podcast about the price of trying to shape the world around our needs, and how to live more sustainably. Host Celia Llopis-Jepsen brings you the stories of people across the Midwest and Great Plains who are working to fix our generational mistakes. From Harvest Public Media, KCUR Studios and the NPR Network.
- Publisher
- KCUR Studios
- Category
- science · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Apr 2024
- Latest episode
- 14 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
8 of 28 episodes have a transcript.
14 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The enemies of ticks are our friends
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The enemies of ticks are our friends
Published 14 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] My name is Meredith Burton, and I live in Independence, Sugar Creek area. And my question is, are there any native tick predators that have declined in this area? And is there a way that we can help tick predators to thrive? I love this question because the implication here is basically like the enemies of our enemies are our friends and we want to help them. One of our listeners actually said, can we please just release a million possums? I mean... I put these questions to Dr. Osfeld. Yeah, those are good questions. And strangely enough, they're not very well studied. So we know that there are... organisms out there that eat ticks. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 84 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 28 ratings
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- 51
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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