This beetle, unlike this chip bag here, this beetle uses one material, chitin.

The Beatles did not invent teenagers.

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These goliath beetles are wired in their wings.

This is the Namibian fog basking beetle, and it's evolved a way of harvesting its own fresh water in a desert.

If the wind blows them over, they're like beetles stuck there on the ground.

This beetle can detect a forest fire at 80 kilometers away.

And then at the back of the greenhouse, it condenses a lot of that humidity as freshwater in a process that is effectively identical to the beetle.

Because if you look closely at the beetle's shell, there are lots of little bumps on that shell.

Turning rocks over revealed this crab spider grappling with a beetle.

Now wouldn't you know it, there's some beetles that just love to make love at that temperature.

I'll give you two examples.

Let's start with Beatle mania hysterical teenagers, crying, screaming, pandemonium.

We can make the circuitry of the right computational power, but we can't actually put them together to make something that will actually work and be as adaptive as these systems.

Currently, there is only 1 carbamate and less than 5 organophosphate insecticides available on the public health market for indoor residual spraying as alternatives to DDT and pyrethroids.

And, in places where there are worms, intestinal worms, cure the kids of their worms.

So when the moist breeze blows in off the sea, you get these droplets of water forming on the beetle's shell.

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And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles.

They just make it with nuts or something.

There was a guy called Dick Rowe who was at Decca Records and turned down The Beatles.

Here is a pest, devastating pest, a spider mite, because it does a lot of webbing like a spider.

And every one of these birds that makes the crossing from India to East Africa eats insects, large insects, the size of dragonflies. Thank you very much.

And this is an x ray picture of a real beetle, and a Swiss watch, back from '88. You look at that what was true then is certainly true today.

And the effect of this is that as the droplets start to form on the bumps, they stay in tight, spherical beads, which means they're much more mobile than they would be if it was just a film of water over the whole beetle's shell.

We found we could do insects, spiders, which are close, things with legs, things with legs and wings, things with legs and antennae.

But plants work the same way and insects work the same way, and this apple works the same way.

It's a huge amount of stuff. It's equal to the weight of methane.

The first way is that you use larvicides.

MBTOC analysed the results and found that for all situations and all crops tested, one or more of the alternatives proved comparable to MB for the control of target pests diseases.

This is a locust. There can be 80 million of them in a square kilometer, and yet they don't collide with one another.

What it turned out, that all that we are seeing, all this liquid, is made of hydrocarbon and ethane and methane, similar to what you put in your car.

Now, usually if people are familiar with bioluminescence at all, it's these guys it's fireflies.

Look where the methane is, the methane is in a very rough terrain area.

The pests that the standard seeks to control are typically insect pests and other pests and diseases vectored by insects.

And your entire body, everything your hair, skin, bone, nails everything is made of collagen.

But in Southeast Asia places like Thailand or Malaysia or Borneo there's a beautiful cooperative behavior that occurs among male fireflies.

As it limits insecticide applications to conditions where they are critically needed, it helps extend the effective life expectancy of alternative insecticides.

And then I moved to the world of plant protection plant protection from insects, from bad bugs.

While a range of approaches was used for the distribution of nets, the focus remained on promoting access among the most at risk groups.

In areas with cross resistance between DDT and pyrethroids, it has been demonstrated that pyrethroid treated nets remain effective in preventing malaria. In such circumstances, the use of insecticide treated nets (ITNs) is a viable alternative to the use of DDT or pyrethroids for indoor residual spraying.

If you see fireflies in North America, like so many North American sorts of things, they tend to be independent operators. They ignore each other.

And then finally you know, the best of all possible worlds some of you recognize this young photo of Pete Best, who was the original drummer for the Beatles, until they, you know, sent him out on an errand and snuck away and picked up Ringo on a tour.

They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae.

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