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

At the species level, it's been estimated that insect based pollination, bees pollinating fruit and so on, is something like 190 billion dollars worth.

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.

Do they allow for pollination, pollinator pathways that bees and butterflies and such can come back into our cities?

Okay, so this is another species evolved to be dispersed by insects.

Many insects have been used by plants as vectors for the transport of the pollination, but not just insects even birds, reptiles, and mammals like bats rats are normally used for the transportation of the pollen.

The insects and other species can take the pollen, transfer it directly to where it's required.

But some plants are manipulating animals, like in the case of orchids that promise sex and nectar and give in change nothing for the transportation of the pollen.

At the species level, it's been estimated that insect based pollination, bees pollinating fruit and so on, is something like 190 billion dollars worth.

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.

Now most pollinators that we think about are insects, but actually in the tropics, many birds and butterflies pollinate.

Who likes insects?

I became interested in entomopathogenic fungi fungi that kill insects.

Small animals eat 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.

What do they do?

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

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?

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.

So that's one point for insects.

It's just very good food.

Well they are.

I'm an entomologist.

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

And there's an orchid that might look to you as if it's got jaws, and in a way, it has it forces the insect to crawl out, getting covered in pollen that it takes somewhere else.

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

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.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind.

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

What do you call this insect in English?

These are all from different insects.

And what I do is I study insects.