Beetle in sentence

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Listen to what the beetle is saying."

I would spend hours and hours listening to the little beetle rolling a huge ball of dung, and while at it, I heard a variety of environmental sounds.

Now I clicked on this on purpose, but if I'd somehow gotten here by mistake, it does remind me, for the band, see "The Beatles," for the car see "Volkswagon Beetle," but I am here for beetle beetles.

Statistically, one of you is a beetle.

It actually is a Japanese beetle.

Unless you're prepared to get dung under your fingernails and root through the dung itself, you'll never see 90 percent of the dung beetle species, because they go directly into the dung, straight down below it, and then they shuttle back and forth between the dung at the soil surface and a nest they make underground.

So watch this beetle, and there's two things that I would like you to be aware of.

And look at what the beetle does.

What we do is we get a great big polarization filter, pop the beetle underneath it, and the filter is at right angles to the polarization pattern of the sky.

The beetle comes out from underneath the filter and it does a right-hand turn, because it comes back under the sky that it was originally orientated to and then reorientates itself back to the direction it was originally going in.

And in this experiment here, what we did was we forced them into a channel, and you can see he wasn't particularly forced into this particular channel, and we gradually displaced the beetle by 180 degrees until this individual ends up going in exactly the opposite direction that it wanted to go in, in the first place.

So all we're interested in here is comparing the temperature of the beetle against the background.

The beetle itself and the ball are probably around about 30 to 35 degrees centigrade, so this is a great big ball of ice cream that this beetle is now transporting across the hot veld.

Watch how often the beetle dances.

So the ball leaves a little thermal shadow, and the beetle climbs on top of the ball and wipes its face, and all the time it's trying to cool itself down, we think, and avoid the hot sand that it's walking across.

This is a dung beetle.

There's one more interesting aspect of this dung beetle's behavior that we found quite fascinating, and that's that it forages and provisions a nest.

And what's taking place is that the beetle has got a home spot, it goes out on a convoluted path looking for food, and then when it finds food, it heads straight home.

Now there's two ways it could be doing that, and we can test that by displacing the beetle to a new position when it's at the foraging site.

So let's see what happens when we put this beetle to the test with a similar experiment.

He displaces the beetle, and now we have to see what is going to take place.

So let's watch what happens when we put the beetle through the whole test.

And this is an x-ray picture of a real beetle, and a Swiss watch, back from '88.

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