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Songs and sounds to delight a wide variety of animals. Play this show for your cat, dog, turtle, parrot, fish or any animal you happen to know.

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Options February 19, 2022: Music About Bugs

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Artist Track Approx. start time
Manzanita  Bumble Bee   Options 0:00:00 (Pop‑up)
Yukata  Dragonfly   Options 0:07:16 (Pop‑up)
Oregon  June Bug   Options 0:12:17 (Pop‑up)
Roy Ayers Ubiquity  The Five Flies   Options 0:16:11 (Pop‑up)
Buddy Bohn  Cockroach   Options 0:19:57 (Pop‑up)
Collie Ryan  Cricket   Options 0:23:08 (Pop‑up)
Bert Jansch  Dragonfly   Options 0:26:22 (Pop‑up)
 
Incredible String Band  Cousin Caterpillar   Options 0:33:20 (Pop‑up)
Bhavatarini Dasi  Bumble Bee   Options 0:38:20 (Pop‑up)
The Fife Reivers  Dragonfly   Options 0:42:16 (Pop‑up)
Stenia  Ballad About Crickets   Options 0:44:12 (Pop‑up)
Tryad  Spider Song   Options 0:46:26 (Pop‑up)
Marcia Griffiths  Green Grasshopper   Options 0:48:27 (Pop‑up)
Jim Wild Carson  Mosquito   Options 0:52:35 (Pop‑up)
Esther Rolle  If You See the Devil Smash Him   Options 0:55:13 (Pop‑up)
 
The Archer Road Band  Butterfly   Options 1:02:02 (Pop‑up)
David Casper  Grasshopper Ridge   Options 1:06:33 (Pop‑up)
The Counts  Flies Over Watermelon   Options 1:08:44 (Pop‑up)
Eva Pilarová  Dragonflies   Options 1:11:41 (Pop‑up)
Camouflage  Bee Sting   Options 1:15:35 (Pop‑up)
Anne Murray  Lady Bug   Options 1:18:54 (Pop‑up)
Strawbs  Dragonfly   Options 1:23:01 (Pop‑up)
 
Complex  Norwegian Butterfly   Options 1:33:04 (Pop‑up)
Bear Mountain Band  Crotch Crickets   Options 1:35:39 (Pop‑up)
Os Abelhudos  Mosquito   Options 1:39:48 (Pop‑up)
Tommy Roe  Firefly   Options 1:43:01 (Pop‑up)
Paul Adolphus  Butterfly   Options 1:45:33 (Pop‑up)
The Bugaloos  The Senses of Our World   Options 1:47:23 (Pop‑up)
Without Wax  Caterpillars to Butterflies   Options 1:50:15 (Pop‑up)
Yancey  Honey Bee (Huh, Huh, Huh, Huh, Huh)   Options 1:53:59 (Pop‑up)
 
Spin  Grasshopper   Options 2:07:11 (Pop‑up)
Cold Fly  Caterpillar   Options 2:11:19 (Pop‑up)
Perigeo  Mistero della Firefly   Options 2:13:57 (Pop‑up)
South to South  Kinzo the Centipede   Options 2:19:51 (Pop‑up)
Don Thompson Quartet  Pretty Butterfly   Options 2:24:15 (Pop‑up)
The Quest  The Seagulls and the Crickets   Options 2:27:17 (Pop‑up)
 
Bjorn Skifs  Firefly   Options 2:32:45 (Pop‑up)
Bumblebee Unlimited  Lady Bug   Options 2:35:56 (Pop‑up)
Bruce Channel  King Bee   Options 2:45:26 (Pop‑up)
Ursula Dudziak  Mosquito   Options 2:48:49 (Pop‑up)
Still  Firefly   Options 2:53:15 (Pop‑up)
Mary Ann Walker  The Bug that Made History   Options 2:55:28 (Pop‑up)


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Listener comments!

Avatar ♥ 6:04am HyperDose:

Goodest of mornings to you, Micah and soon to arrive listeners! ☕🥬🎺
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:06am john_zilla:

good morning everyone!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:12am PigeonsAndRust:

Perfect music to wake me up on a Saturday. Good morning!
  6:23am morphe':

Years ago, I captured a female cockroach with her egg sticking out of her rear ... I kept it in a jar to see how many wee ones came out ... I think I remember it being over 20 ??
  6:24am Ben from Toledo:

Morning all. This song is nice!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:31am john_zilla:

yeah!! insects
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:36am listener monica:

GREAT to turn on to this. (i rescued 3 houseflies yesterday and set them free outside to find some sh*t or a carcass.)
  6:37am ron-ji:

Hooray! Another Micah guest episode, on the rare morning I am (still) awake to hear it.
  6:40am ron-ji:

Now THIS sounds straight outta Music of Mind Control. Crossover hit?
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:41am Doug in JC:

Good morning. I like to give my house spiders a little spritz of water every now and then
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:41am micah:

yes Ron ji yes
  6:42am ron-ji:

Bless you, DJ-ji.
  6:44am Toothgrinder Tom:

All right, I’m in on the ground floor! (Almost.)
  6:45am Toothgrinder Tom:

I’m a lifelong friend of spiders.
  6:48am morphe':

Last year we had a spider living with us in a wood knot hole in a table side..
Simon of 10 named her Mabel... When I find spiders in my NYC hovel, I move them to various corners ... have not had a cockroach in years - though surrounded by others with frightening #s..

Moving on to bedbugs .. everyone on my floor has had them except me. When the expert with the Beagle came, there was no action. He said with all the dust and cobwebs around the floor molding, they would never come in and so it has been so...
  6:50am Cooh John:

Good morning manimals. These songs are bugging me, Micah. Hi Ben. Spent some time in Toledo. Carty still around?
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:50am micah:

nice story morphe!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 6:51am fred:

I love spiders. I had some at home a few years ago, but a cockroach came in (poisoned, first I ever saw) and the spiders ate it and all died. I threw it out the window when I saw in their web, but too late
  7:00am Listener Abroad:

I’ve got a golden orb spider that makes a web daily at night and high enough to be able to walk under and catch insects.
Avatar 7:03am Claire from Montclair:

Cicadas invaded my dreams a couple night ago.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:03am holland oats:

sorry what movie was that re esther rolle?
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:04am micah:

Dont Play Us Cheap
  7:05am morphe':

H Oats - Don't Play Us Cheap by van Peebles (the father)
Avatar ♥ 7:05am HyperDose:

According to IMDB they're bats instead of cockroaches in the film version
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:06am micah:

thats true Hyper but at the end in desperation he turns into a roach
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:07am holland oats:

thanks that was bugging me
Avatar ♥ 7:08am HyperDose:

Even better. Two metamorphoses! 😈💥🦇💥🪳
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:10am dale:

morning. any good songs about water bugs coming out of my sink and tub drain when it rained and the storm sewer filled up in brooklyn?
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:11am micah:

no dale sorry
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member 7:11am Strandlund:

Good Morning Micah...thanks for filling in!!
  7:12am Toothgrinder Tom:

Micah has such a soothing voice and presence, I wish he could be cloned and host all of the shows on WFMU!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:12am micah:

aw Tom *blush*
  7:13am morphe':

There was cheesy "Afternoon Movie" (NYC WABC 1970s) in which the protagonist is stuck in a small boat/skip on the ocean with no oars???? but he has a guitar and is singing ".. I'd rather be a cockroach than a flea ...If I could ..." (El Condor Pass tune)Anybody know the film? I think Krys O would know but she is not in here.
yet...
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:14am micah:

well morphe ive seen alot of tv movies but that ones got me stumped
  7:15am Toothgrinder Tom:

morphe’ I think I remember that … was the final scene of the skiff washing ashore only to reveal his skeleton still clutching that dang guitar?!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:17am dale:

one called satan's triangle that has three people in a boat adrift.

google 'little man in the boat' and all kinds of nasty pops up.
  7:17am Rob from Maryland:

Good morning! My wife and I just tuned in, and we're loving that all these songs are about insects!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:18am micah:

satans triangle is great! creepy as fuck. and kim novak is hot as hell
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:19am Jim the Poet:

Love this
  7:20am morphe':

Tooth ... cannot say I remember the ending??? Thinking the protagonist was Bobby Sherman or some other teen idol of those days ...
ps great retelling/short film of Kafka's Metamorphosis for later...
"Franz Kafka's it's a wonderful life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfHmUIWuyGU
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:21am dale:

love anne murray.
Avatar ♥ 7:22am TDK60:

Good day, Micah, radio entomologists.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:23am StringOFperils:

I always die a little. Anne Murray. Maybe it was the material.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:24am StringOFperils:

But this makes up for it.
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:25am dale:

from the witchwood is a favorite strawbs album
  7:26am Rob from Maryland:

@micah, for your edification/spreadsheet, here's another song about dragonflies: Ana Torroja "Libelula" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD528K7ajus
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:27am StringOFperils:

Fill-in shows are a nice surprise. Much too early for mind control, so perfect cuz my mind is still in bed.
Avatar ♥ 7:28am HyperDose:

Music to shave a friar pattern to
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:35am dale:

iis arcesia's 'butterfly mind' on the docket?
  7:42am yippie:

I like to eat those crickets, but I always spit out the legs
  7:42am Toothgrinder Tom:

@morphe’ that’s how I would have ended it!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:44am Will the Sound Guy:

Hi Micah and all!!!
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48am dave wuz here:

i'm a bug
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:48am PigeonsAndRust:

Insects that are popular subjects for songs: Butterflies.

Insects that are not popular subjects for songs: Botflies
  7:50am morphe':

Simon and I off to play footie/soccer ... too windy in Madrid today for our Saturday Park Ping Pong ... Thanks Micah and all !!!!!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:54am dale:

waiting for this lady to mention sheep or the spirit or the light or jesus.
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 7:55am dale:

gotta get the dumb car inspected. you'll be on in the van o' war.
  7:56am Toothgrinder Tom:

@morphe’ how old is Simon?
  7:56am Rob from Maryland:

I'd love to hear a song about botflies
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:03am Will the Sound Guy:

Maybe a hardcore song about botflies would make sense...
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:06am ParUbi:

House centipedes are doing just fine :)
  8:06am P-90:

INSECT-POCALYPSE!!!
  8:07am P-90:

(never personally encountered crotch crickets)
  8:07am Payton in Warwick:

dude. I thought this was a family friendly show.
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:07am dave wuz here:

UNCLEAN!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:09am micah:

it usually is Payton, unless Im guest hosting
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:09am Handy Haversack:

Morning, Micah and all. What's the buzz?

I recently read Insectopedia, by Hugh Raffles. Highly recommended. An anthropological accounting of human-insect relations. With a look at cricket fighting.
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:10am Will the Sound Guy:

I wonder how funky this grasshopper track is gonna get
  8:10am Payton in Warwick:

You do you, Micah.
  8:12am ?:

in transnistria and I touched my pubes and my fingers turned black and It was because of squished crotch crickets
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13am Will the Sound Guy:

Payton, hope all is well over in the Wick!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:13am micah:

nice, question mark! MORE CROTCH CRICKET STORIES PLEASE
  8:14am Will:

I live in RI where the "state's most dangerous animal" is the black widow spider but nobody I know has ever seen one.
  8:15am Toothgrinder Tom:

I wouldn’t mind having a tarantula as a pet.
  8:15am Payton in Warwick:

Is that Will O?
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:15am Will the Sound Guy:

Yes it is
Avatar Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:19am fred:

That nobody saw one and lived to tell about it make a pretty good case for "most dangerous animal"
  8:20am Will:

@Payton. I am Will (J) from Pawtucket!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:25am melinda:

Morning chums☕️
  8:29am Payton in Warwick:

Wow, just a plethora of Wills!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:29am Handy Haversack:

Where there are Wills, there are Ways!
  8:30am Payton in Warwick:

I gotta run to work but Will O- you know where to find me! (We had a kid! We survived the pandemic, etc!)
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:30am Handy Haversack:

This one left over from Tuesdays, Micah?
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:32am Will the Sound Guy:

We had a kid too Payton, we'll have to chat sometime. Be well!
  8:34am yippie:

hotaru
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:43am Will the Sound Guy:

Hi Handy, Fred, melinda, HyperDose, TDK60, TT, Will J, Jim, and dale
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:43am Handy Haversack:

My best insect story is all about the ladybugs. Before I moved back to NYC from grad school in MI, I wanted K8 and some friends there to come see my mom's family's old farm in the far west of the state. It's April, so my aunt and I go up to reconnect the pipes and light a fire in the stove to warm the place up. And we woke up a ladybug colony hidden the walls for hours and hours, thousand upon thousand of ladybugs came pouring out of all the cracks in the walls of this tarpaper shack, basically. I think a million ladybugs might have been there, sleeping away until the fire woke them up and the poured out.

It was the cutest biblical curse you ever saw.

Morning, Will!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:44am micah:

nice story HH
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:46am Dano59:

who knew disco ladybugs could be so much fun?
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:48am Dano59:

@too..Tom: would you name him ... Paul?
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51am Dano59:

I don't like little animals I hate big bugs / I like to feel my bare feet on a Berber rug - Christine Lavin, 'Camping'
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:51am melinda:

@Handy that’s so cute
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:54am Will the Sound Guy:

Handy, that's pretty wild 🐞🐞🐞
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:55am Ken From Hyde Park:

Good morning. I can tell you that the Florida everglades have quite a few mosquitos.
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:56am Dano59:

a few bugs woke up to 50 degree weather here a couple days ago
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:57am Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Micah! This program certainly didn't bug me!

Later on, arthropals!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:57am Dano59:

... not Mary *Lou* Walker? we have a local kids' performer named that
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 8:59am melinda:

There is an adorable fat squirrel perched on one of my fence posts, have a good view of its tummy
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:00am john_zilla:

thank you!
Avatar 😼 Swag For Life Member ♥ 9:03am Will the Sound Guy:

Thank you Micah for the fill in show
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