Science Podcasting

Leave the traditional guided walks behind and strike out at your own pace with an audio guide. This bilingual podcast is presented by Shanghai Daily and supervised by the Shanghai Science and Technology Committee.

Insects are probably the most successful life form on the planet. Scientists have already found about 800,000 species of insects — far more than all the other animal groups combined. Today we will take you into the wonderful world of insects — The Shanghai Entomological Museum.

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The Shanghai Entomological Museum is located within the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in Xuhui District.

To begin the journey, walk through the section that looks like a “time tunnel,” which explains the evolution of life on earth through colorful pictures.

This is a replica of an ant colony. Press different buttons on the control panel and different chambers will light up correspondingly: rooms for nurseries, food storage, worker ants, the queen ant, etc.

The world's most magnificent moth，the sunset moth (Chrysiridia riphearia). Indigenous to Madagascar, the sunset moth is a poisonous insect which has sunset-like rosy streaks on its wings.

Morpho Helena is the world's most beautiful and expensive butterfly (each specimen costs 360,000 yuan). It lives in the tropical rain forests of South America.

A specimen of a rare species of leaf insect. It is called Phyllium sinense and is found only in Tibet.