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Now, it wasn't a controlled study, obviously, but it did lead to some later research that I did at MIT with Palash Nandy and Cynthia Breazeal, where we had people come into the lab and smash these HEXBUGs that move around in a really lifelike way, like insects.
And these crows use sticks in the wild to get insects and whatnot out of pieces of wood.
When we think about climate change, we probably don't think about giant insects and erupting volcanoes or funny voices.
And besides, skylines are highly specific urban habitats with their own insects, plants and animals, and even their own weather.
Insects, birds and small mammals figure prominently into children's pictures.
They do all sorts of great things like moving around on the floor; they go into our gardens and they eat our crops; they climb trees; they go in water, they come out of water; they trap insects and digest them.
Well it's Miami that really needs these better ways of controlling insects.
So the bottom line is this: biological control of harmful insects can be both more effective and very much more environmentally friendly than using insecticides, which are toxic chemicals.
And here, we can take inspiration from social insects.
And like the system I showed you before, these insects actually also have pattern rules that help them determine what to build, but the pattern can be made out of other insects, or it could be made out of mud.
So, so far I've talked about rules for insects and for fish and for robots, but what about the rules that apply to our own human collective?
Now, over the next two-and-a-half years, I shot 37 insects from their collection.
One of the reasons why could be that it scares away insects or it looks less appealing to herbivores.
They accompany me wherever I go in my life, and I fill them with all sorts of things, records of my lived experience: so watercolor paintings, drawings of what I see, dead flowers, dead insects, pasted ticket stubs, rusting coins, business cards, writings.
We found we could do insects, spiders, which are close, things with legs, things with legs and wings, things with legs and antennae.
And you can do more than just insects.
And the algorithms that we developed to do insects turned out to be the solution for airbags to do their simulation.
And there’s a cunning purpose behind these elaborate displays: many orchids trick insects, sometimes even into having sex with them.
Like other flowers, most orchids need to attract insects to gather their pollen and carry it between plants.
Through a combination of sexy shapes and pheromones, orchids convince insects to mate with them.
Other orchids have evolved contrasting colours and ultraviolet spots– invisible to humans but irresistible to insects.
Still others have tactile ‘love-handles’ that ensure insects are positioned precisely for pollination.
Some orchids make such convincing mates that insects even ejaculate on them, wasting valuable sperm.
This is possible because many insects and flowers produce simple organic compounds called hydrocarbons, which form a layer that protects their bodies from drying out.
Its scent can double as a way for insects to attract potential mates, known as a sex pheromone.
Some orchids also masquerade as places where insects lay their eggs.
Other orchids look and smell just like the fungi on which certain insects lay their eggs.
The beautiful sunbirds we see in our environments are part of nature's pollination crew, and they help our plants to form fruits. Together with other pollinators like insects, they have actually helped us to get most of the food crops that we depend on for many years.
So last year, I founded China's first food tech accelerator and VC platform to help start-ups to shape the future of good food the way they want, be that through using edible insects as a more sustainable source of protein or using essential oils to keep food fresh for longer.
Around the world there are more than 600 plant species that supplement a regular diet of sunlight, water, and soil with insects, microbes, or even frogs and rats.
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