Bertie Beetle

Hey, who's the beetle?

Call that beetle.

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

The beetle or what is this?

Look at that! These damn beetles. They're everywhere.

The Beatles did not invent teenagers.

And finally never ever join the Beatles.

These goliath beetles are wired in their wings.

Oh, groping about in the cellar, like an angry old beetle.

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

To hear that beetle talk... you'd think somethin' was gonna happen to us.

This is an unconsolidated ground that is suffused with liquid methane.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

These bacteria in turn support a variety of worms, mollusks, crustaceans and other animals.

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

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.

Little Worm

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.

What vermin some vermin are.

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.

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

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

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

Isopropanol

They're just parasite hotels even their parasites have parasites.

And look, this flower is flooded with predatory bugs, with the good ones after wiping out the bad ones, the thrips.

Shimon Steinberg Natural pest control ... using bugs!

Is that so parasitic?

I'm obsessed with insects, particularly insect flight.

Help me!

A worm?

Moths.

Ladybugs!

Ushimatsu. Ushimatsu.

Relax. Relax!