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The huge diversity within the insect world also increases the likelihood that an orchid will find a unique audience.
Because trees are growing so close together, and because tree species, tree sizes and ages are so similar across large areas, fires not only move easily from acre to acre, but now, so do diseases and insect outbreaks, which are killing or reducing the vitality of really large sections of forest now.
If we come back to our exponential growth of computing, 1,000 dollars of computing is now somewhere between an insect and a mouse brain.
I'm going to show you what this looks like: here's an insect's cell, and it's responding; it will respond in a second when I press this button.
So you can go home now and say that you've now seen an insect smelling and even hearing an insect smelling.
But this works really well, and this allows us to see what the insect is detecting.
Trees can also share information about events like drought or insect attacks through their fungal networks, causing their neighbors to increase production of protective enzymes in anticipation of threats.
Every plant virus, every insect virus, every marine virus.
Here's an insect's cell, and it will respond in a second when I press this button, and you'll see it sort of ticking over with this response.
When she feeds an insect to her grubs, they digest the bug into a sugary substance that sustains their mother.
16,000 kilometers, four generations, mind you, for a two inch long insect.
Which, up until now has had the longest known insect migration.
And this crossing here, of the ocean, is the only truly regular transoceanic crossing of any insect.
If you think that the mapping of America's made a difference, or landing on the moon, or this other stuff, it's the map of ourselves and the map of every plant and every insect and every bacteria that really makes a difference.
And a professor in the University of Massachusetts, in the zoology department, bought this climber because she wanted to study the insect diversity of the top of the tree canopy.
And then you could decide: "Is this an insect I want to kill, or an insect I don't want to kill?" Moore's law made computing cheap; so cheap we can weigh the life of an individual insect and decide thumbs up or thumbs down.
I felt like I was riding on the back of an insect going across the enormous tapestry of Africa.
A small insect would reverse these priorities.
There is also one super big roach near the end of this one, like in so many insect films.
It is a cautionary tale of how to take a European masterpiece and suck the life of of it until it is a dry husk like an insect carcass on the the windowsill.
The movie itself is a padded stinkaroo....endless insect and wildlife shots make the viewer wanna die!
What's a giant mutant insect to do? Head for the big city, of course!
Oh, and lastly, bumblebees fly because they produce a sufficient amount of lift for their mass by beating their wings just like every other flying insect.
It is a huge prehistoric insect, and it needs lots of food.
When HOPPITY GOES TO TOWN he discovers nothing but bad news for his little insect neighbors in the Lowlands.
Hopefully we may never step on an insect again!
It's wonderfully inventive, never more so than when objects barely noticed in the 'real' world assume a much greater significance - both pro and con - in the insect world.
I've never been a fan of insects, so all the insect episodes are creepy to me.
Following the always-popular trend of "big-bug" movies, "Blue Monkey" handles about a new and unknown insect species that wipes out the doctors and patients of a remote hospital.
Other than this, there's absolutely no explanation for where this new type of insect all of a sudden comes from!
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