What happens behind the scenes at the Museum? Why is it important to preserve the 70 million specimens in the collections? And how relevant is the research of Museum scientists to today’s challenges, like biodiversity loss and the spread of tropical disease? The BBC documentary, Museum of Life, will answer these questions, and many more. [...]
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‘Museum of Life’ new BBC series
Posted in General, Media, tagged BBC, Museum of Life, Natural History Museum, NHM on March 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A year in the life of ants (radio prog)
Posted in Ant News, Media, tagged iplayer, wood ants on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
‘Enter the alien and dangerous world of Northumbrian wood ants. Peter France takes an extraordinary journey across the seasons.’ Episode 1 on iPlayer here. Details of episodes 2-5 here. Each episode is only available for 7 days.
Dawson’s bee battle
Posted in Bee News, Media, tagged Amegilla dawsoni, BBC Life, Dawson's bees on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It is rare for any species of animal to regularly kill its own in combat. However, male Dawson’s bees, one of the world’s largest bee species, are so aggressive that they kill each other en masse in a bid to mate with females. The bees enter a frenzy of fighting, and by the time their [...]
A plea for bees/How do ants know what to do? (video talks)
Posted in Ant News, Bee News, Media on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of interesting video talks from TED. Credit to Bug Girl for links to these. Dennis vanEngelsdorp: a plea for bees. Deborah Gordon: How do ants know what to do?
Techno wasps
Posted in Media, Wasp News, tagged paper wasps, Polistes, Polistinae on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A video of paper wasps (Polistinae) at the nest
Ants: Nature’s Secret Power
Posted in Media on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following film segment is from the documentary ‘Ants: Nature’s Secret Power’ which I came across on Myrmecos blog. Anyone know if this documentary happens to be available on DVD (Region 2: UK)?
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