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Why, for example, does this caterpillar start violently thrashing about when another insect gets close to it and those white cocoons that it seems to be standing guard over?
And by tracking markers on an insect's wings, we can visualize the air flow that they produce.
The brown you see is frass, what comes out the back end of the insect.
That's because these insecticide sprays are difficult to find, they're expensive, and they don't prevent the insect from getting inside the plants.
The first way to meet a metaphor is just to see the world through its eyes: an insect sings from a branch passing by in the middle of the river.
Almost 2,000 insect species are turned into food, forming a big part of everyday diets for two billion people around the world.
Socioeconomically, bug production could uplift people in developing countries since insect farms can be small scale, highly productive, and yet relatively inexpensive to keep.
It's pretty much just a giant insect with legs and feelers galore that was once regarded as an inferior, repulsive food.
So, give it a try! Pop that insect into your mouth, and savor the crunch.
Our automatic scratching response would dislodge anything harmful that's potentially lurking on our skin, like a harmful sting, a biting insect, or the tendrils of a poisonous plant.
So every living cell, whether coming from a plant, insect or human being, has a DNA that encodes for nanobio building blocks.
I mean, there's, like, probably, a dozen, minimum, plant species growing there, supporting all kinds of insect life, and this is a completely unmanaged space, a completely wild space.
And the way it worked was it was shaped like a stick insect and it would walk around a minefield on its legs, and every time it stepped on a mine, one of the legs would blow up, and it would continue on the other legs to blow up more mines.
Or you can cover up and apply insect repellent.
Covering up and applying insect repellent does work ... until you forget.
In this book she tells the story, as an example, of how a very nasty insect pest of livestock was eliminated in the last century.
It's the most common insect vector of diseases, not just Zika but dengue, Chikungunya, West Nile virus and that ancient plague, yellow fever.
And that is they added a gene that makes the insect glow under UV light so that when they released it they could follow exactly how far it went how long it lived and all of the kinds of data for a good scientific study.
Even the simplest animal we think of, something like an insect, and they have more neurons and connections than you can imagine.
Well, a human, one of your legs works like two legs of a trotting dog, or works like three legs, together as one, of a trotting insect, or four legs as one of a trotting crab.
It moves in a gait that an insect uses, and here it is going on the treadmill.
It moves in the gait of the insect.
And the way I work is that I essentially split the insect up into multiple sections, and I treat each one of those sections like a small still life.
So for example, if I was photographing the eye of the insect, which is normally quite smooth and dome-shaped, then I'd use a light source that is large and soft and diffuse, so I don't get any harsh hot spots on that surface.
And so I make that one tiny section look as beautiful as I possibly can, and I work my way across the insect until I have about 20 or 25 different sections.
And, you know, standing in front of a three-meter insect, they could have been horrified.
When we ask that, students will instantly tell you that their cat or dog has a brain, and most will say that a mouse or even a small insect has a brain, but almost nobody says that a plant or a tree or a shrub has a brain.
But the most vital component of sexual deception is scent: orchids mimic the precise scent of a single insect species.
Over the course of many thousands of years, random compound combinations have given some orchid species precisely the same signature scent as particular insect species.
Random genetic mutations in orchids may result in a trait– like a scent or a shape– that, by chance, matches the needs of a single insect species.
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