Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Poot Poot!

Help the Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation restore more native prairies in Illinois:
jdcf.org


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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
and River Ridge Middle School :)

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:

Nicrophorus tomentosus: Image by Laszlo Ilyes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Necrophorus_tomentosus.jpg

Family Salticidae: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jumping_spider_(1).jpg

Family Papilionidae commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Western_Swallowtail_butterfly.jpg

Family Mantidae: Image by Luc Viatour commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tenodera_sinensis_4_Luc_Viatour.jpg

Family Staphylinidae, the rove beetles: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Staphylinus.olens.jpg

Translated captions by Katerina Idrik, Rosa McGuire, Tony Chu, Seth Bergenholtz, and Kelleen Browning. You da bombbb.