Insects are being displaced by changing weather patterns, habitat encroachment and other human behavior.

On this episode of Kentucky Health, host Dr. Wayne Tuckson talks with Dr. Subba Reddy Palli, a professor and state entomologist at the University of Kentucky, about the consequences climate change and human activity have upon the insect world and the diseases they carry. 

Kentucky Health
KET Sunday, Oct. 1 • 1:30/12:30 pm
KET2 Monday, Oct. 2 • 2/1 pm
Watch on-demand at KET.org and on the PBS app

Kentucky Health is a KET production, hosted by retired Louisville surgeon Dr. Wayne Tuckson and produced by Christie Dutton.

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