{"id":49901,"date":"2025-04-07T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?p=49901"},"modified":"2025-04-07T09:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T13:15:06","slug":"ramsey-entomologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/ramsey-entomologist\/","title":{"rendered":"This Entomologist Alum Wants You to Fall in Love with Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Samuel Ramsey \u201911 was terrified of them as a child\u2014but now he\u2019s a passionate advocate for celebrating and protecting them<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By <strong>Melissa Newcomb<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">After Samuel Ramsey \u201911 released a song on YouTube, the <em>New York Times <\/em>called it \u201csilly, but surprisingly smooth.\u201d The 2021 tune, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q4rG0uMVR5Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Big Red Eyes<\/a>,\u201d is sung from an unusual point of view: that of cicadas crooning a love song after emerging from living underground for 17 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramsey is an entomologist\u2014one who has devoted his career not only to teaching and research, but to inspiring the public to love insects as much as he does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also known as \u201cDr. Buggs\u201d and \u201cDr. Sammy\u201d\u2014his nicknames on the educational <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@drsammyramsey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a> he has maintained since grad school\u2014Ramsey has been featured in a wide variety of media outlets including PBS, the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, CNN, Wired, \u201cCBS This Morning,\u201d and the \u201cToday\u201d show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" 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paralyzing terror of insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">If you learn about these creatures, you\u2019ll find there\u2019s a lot of charm to them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI thought they were the most despicable, disturbing creatures on the planet,\u201d he recalls. \u201cIt got to the point that I was having nightmares about them regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wisely, his parents recognized the need to intervene; when he was seven, they took him to the library and told him to learn about insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Ramsey observes: \u201cPeople fear what they don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He became a voracious reader of all things bug-related\u2014learning, among many other things, that insect and human behavior share many of the same motivators, such as hunger or fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" 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On the Hill, he majored in entomology in CALS and went on to earn a doctorate in the field from the University of Maryland, College Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His creativity and playful, informal style\u2014as in a series of YouTube videos titled \u201cNew Bug, Who Dis?\u201d\u2014have resonated with audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His many spots on public TV and radio have included weighing in on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/05\/07\/852375483\/heres-the-deal-with-murder-hornets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">murder hornets<\/a>\u201d for NPR&#8217;s <em>Short Wave<\/em> and appearing on WNYC\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnycstudios.org\/podcasts\/radiolab-kids\/projects\/terrestrials\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Terrestrials<\/a><\/em>, a <em>Radiolab for Kids<\/em> podcast that explores the natural world\u2014and why it\u2019s stranger than we think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignwide has-text-align-center\" 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