I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight.

Why not eat insects? Well first, what are insects?

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

I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

Who likes insects?

And I would like to know what the audience is, and so who of you ever ate insects?

If you produce insects, you have less manure per kilogram of meat that you produce.

We're not used to it, and we see insects as these organisms that are very different from us.

Small animals eat insects.

Sometimes the whole plant mimics an insect, even to us.

What do they do?

And then, within zoology, I took the course or the discipline of entomology, the science of insects.

And maybe by 2020, you'll buy them just knowing that this is an insect that you're going to eat.

And sure enough, there's the insect.

It's not just insects.

There's quite a lot of people that are eating insects.

So why not eat insects?

So you have less waste, and the waste that you have is not as environmental malign as it is with cow dung.

We eat insects they're so distantly related from us that this doesn't happen.

So that's one point for insects.

It's just very good food.

Well they are.

They've created a kind of insect bot, or bugbot.

And you can do more than just insects.

So what is an insect seeing?

They're at the start of food chains.

So that's two points for insects.

So that's three points for insects.

Insects have a hard skin.

A lethal dose of the insecticide is absorbed by insects which come into contact with the surface.

If it wasn't able to stretch so much, then basically when an insect hit the web, it would just trampoline right off of it.

What do you call this insect in English?

These are all from different insects.

And what I do is I study insects.

You're eating at least 500 grams per year.

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

Very showy, to attract lots of insects to do its bidding.

So that's four points for insects.

These are the anthers of a lily, cleverly done so that when the unsuspecting insect lands on it, the anther flips up and whops it on the back with a great load of pollen that it then goes to another plant with.

But you don't want to get all of the insects.

It's the same in plants, in insects and in animals.

Co evolution entwined insects and birds and plants forever.

Insects are animals that walk around on six legs.

You can vary enormously.

And in fact, without insects, we would not be here in this room, because if the insects die out, we will soon die out as well.