{"id":2051,"date":"2012-05-09T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T21:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=2051"},"modified":"2012-05-09T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T21:04:09","slug":"insect-songs-for-the-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/09\/insect-songs-for-the-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"Insect Songs for the Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"attachment_951\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/tuesday-tunes-ladybug-pusa\/ryan-fleacrest\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-951\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-951\" title=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Fleacrest\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ryan-fleacrest.jpg 346w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Fleacrest Approves of these Insect Songs<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/twitter-for-scientists-and-why-you-should-try-it-scienceshare\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve mentioned before how useful Twitter can be, and how the #hashtag can be a real life saver for researchers and entomologists.<\/a> Today however, the #hashtag reached an all new level of awesome, and provided the Twitterverse with an afternoon&#8217;s worth of free comedy.<\/p>\n<p>#InsectSongs is where cheesy Saturday afternoon music anthology commercials meet entomology, with countless creative song titles scrolling down the screen. I&#8217;ve Storified some of my favourites here (grouped by taxonomic order of course), but be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23InsectSongs\" target=\"_blank\">check out the full list of Bugboard 100 hit titles!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Insect nerds are a creative lot and they put their hivemind to work coming up with some amazingly Punny #InsectSongs!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/storify.com\/BioInFocus\/insect-songs-for-the-ages<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ironically there were a large number of Beatles songs included in this list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course if you want to hear some actual music about insects, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/category\/tuesday-tunes\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out my Tuesday Tunes playlist<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insect nerds are a creative lot and they put their hivemind to work coming up with some amazingly Punny #InsectSongs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,151,23,16,199],"tags":[86,396,249,599,198],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogosphere","category-fun-stuff","category-insects","category-pop-culture","category-tuesday-tunes","tag-fun","tag-insect","tag-music","tag-pop-culture","tag-twitter","category-29-id","category-151-id","category-23-id","category-16-id","category-199-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2065,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}