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The Six-Legged Narrative is the podcast that finds the extraordinary hiding in plain sight — under rocks, in the ocean, on your skin right now.
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- Sep 30, 2026
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The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-09-29 (opens the original)
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A parasite that talks its host into drowning. A snail with a built in front door. Twenty thousand ants and a mystery at a Japanese shipping port. This episode of The Six-Legged Narrative also visits a campus where fly larvae turn leftovers into fertilizer, a tick-triggered allergy heading for Capitol Hill, and a striped butterfly that could be one vote away from a state title. Six stories, one very odd little world at your feet.
The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-09-28 (opens the original)
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A dad with a whole family glued to his back, an elephant-sized hole in the insect world, and a suitcase nobody wants to unpack. This episode of The Six-Legged Narrative travels from the Kenyan savanna to a rainforest that hid on the map, then follows an app that wants to name every tick and a hunt for insects nobody has named yet in Borneo. Six stories, plenty of surprises.
The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-09-26 (opens the original)
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Today on The Six-Legged Narrative: a caterpillar in Hawaii that broke one of the most basic rules in insect biology, a grasshopper population that changed color to match a landscape scorched by wildfire, and an aphid that grows its own house out of a living plant. Plus, the dogs trained to out smell a termite colony, a low-tech light trick that pulls insects in for an up-close look, and the caterpillar that's been informally forecasting winter longer than most weather apps have existed.
The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-09-25 (opens the original)
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A crustacean rivalry earns a genuinely ridiculous nickname, an entire ecosystem gets judged by its dragonflies, and honey bees might finally be catching a break. Six stories, one surprisingly long-lived fly, and Nathan's usual mix of science, strangeness, and cautious optimism.
The Six-Legged Narrative EPS 2026-24-2026 (opens the original)
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Six legs, six stories: an insect that runs so fast it briefly goes blind, the genetic detective work behind pesticide-resistant bedbugs, and a sneaky earwig with a taste for termites. It's the week's strangest science and nature headlines, six-legged and otherwise, on The Six-Legged Narrative.
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