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4:57
Justin Schmidt
The world's most painful insect sting
4:23
George Zaidan
The bug that poops candy
4:52
Kenny Coogan
Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen
4:59
Walter R. Tschinkel
Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids: the life of a fire ant queen
12:07
Menno Schilthuizen
How animals and plants are evolving in cities
4:50
Kenny Coogan
The wild world of carnivorous plants
5:03
Anne Gaskett
The sexual deception of orchids
12:54
Noah Wilson-Rich
How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time
4:29
Greg Gage
How you can make a fruit fly eat veggies
5:17
Greg Gage
How a dragonfly's brain is designed to kill
4:46
Greg Gage
The real reason why mosquitoes buzz
4:06
Anika Hazra
A simple way to tell insects apart
12:49
Fredros Okumu
Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes
7:48
Levon Biss
Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects
10:51
Radhika Nagpal
What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish
15:10
Nina Fedoroff
A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
14:22
Kirsti Abbott
The ants that run the world
12:40
Katie Francfort
What if we used the problem as part of the solution?
14:10
Jonathan Rossiter
A robot that eats pollution
11:58
Marlene Zuk
What we learn from insects' sex lives
13:09
Vijay Kumar
The future of flying robots
6:06
Anand Varma
The first 21 days of a bee's life
6:15
Jaap de Roode
How butterflies self-medicate
4:30
Deborah Gordon
Inside the ant colony
13:14
Ed Yong
Zombie roaches and other parasite tales
13:51
Sara Lewis
The loves and lies of fireflies
14:09
Deborah Gordon
What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
7:24
Louie Schwartzberg
Hidden miracles of the natural world
5:07
Robert Full
The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots
3:33
Emma Bryce
The case of the vanishing honeybees
4:36
Emma Bryce
Should we eat bugs?
2:25
Rose Eveleth
The loathsome lethal mosquito
2:30
Rose Eveleth
Cicadas: The dormant army beneath your feet
15:18
Sonia Shah
3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria
15:57
Marla Spivak
Why bees are disappearing
15:55
Michael Dickinson
How a fly flies
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