{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Digging In The Dirt with Kevin Gallagher","title":"Victor DeMasi- The pollinator Squad -Butterflies and Bees","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7bfd19f2\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1896,"description":"My guest on this segment of DITD is Victor DeMasi. Victor is a self described citizen scientist. Victor was a wetland conservation officer in his hometown of Redding CT for 20 years and is presently a curatorial affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven. He busies himself with preserving open space in town and preserving butterflies in the museum. His field work with butterflies contributed almost a thousand citations to the recently published Connecticut Butterfly Atlas. He has contributed articles to scientific publications and his mark-recapture studies with Swallowtail butterflies was recently cited in the book Swallowtails of the Americas.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/nNzPwoE1Bokx-JdcFRazwtVwWo_PDgvpLySBtCaie58/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80N2Q5/NDFhMGE1ZGE0NGU3/MmU3NmZhZDA0NzAw/YWIwNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}