The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-07-06

This episode, I'm covering six stories that span the small-but-mighty world of arthropods: why a cockroach can survive a week without its head, a spider with an oddly specific taste for dirty socks, a garden beetle that can blister your skin if you're not careful, a virus that seems to make whiteflies tougher instead of weaker, a light-trap program in Singapore that pulled in tens of thousands of cicadas (and the openquestion of what repeated mass collection could mean for future generations), and the mantis shrimp strike powerful enough to draw blood through a neoprene boot. Fun, fast, and genuinely surprising, this is The Six-Legged Narrative.