Ped has a doughnut-related crisis, Tom is visited by ladybird beetles, and they discuss the forthcoming Insect Apocalypse.

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• The Insect Apocalypse is Here by Brooke Jarvis (The New York Times Magazine)
• The German Amateurs Who Discovered ‘Insect Armageddon’ (The New York Times)
• Trophic cascade
• Anthropocene
• Coccinellidae aka ladybird beetles, or ladybugs
• Tom’s winter visitors
• Hemiptera or true bugs
• How many Stax lids are there?

Music by Lee Rosevere (CC by 4.0)