Uploaded October 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Nothing says collection expedition like rotten chicken liver!

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The Brain Scoop is written and hosted by:
Emily Graslie

Special Guests and huge thanks to:
Jim Louderman and Rebekah Shuman Baquiran, Assistant Collections Managers of Insects

Created By:
Hank Green

Directed, Edited, Animated, and Scored by:
Michael Aranda .

Filmed on Location in Hanover, IL
and Supported by:
The Field Museum in Chicago, IL
(http://www.fieldmuseum.org)

Photo credits:
THANK YOU to Derek Hennen (normalbiology.blogspot.com/) for supplying many of the images of millipedes in this video.

Mark Wetmore (Necrophorus marginatus)
(bugguide.net/node/view/272621)

Michael K. Oliver, Ph.D. : (Necrophila americana)
(commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ANecrophila_americana_(Linnaeus)_female.jpg)

Spirostreptid photo from (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cylinroiulus_caeruleocinctus_2.jpg)

Marshal Hedin (Platydesmida)
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brachycybe_lecontii_(Platydesmida)_millipede_(3680001399).jpg)

Joseph Berger (Polyxenida: Polyxenus lagurus)
(commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:5387667-PPT.jpg)

(Polyzoniida: Octoglena bivirgata) (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Octoglena_bivirgata_Santa_Cruz_county.jpg)

Thanks to Rosa McGuire, Katerina Idrik, Tony Chu, Seth Bergenholtz, Anne-Sophie Caron, and Kelleen Browning for translating captions!