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  1. Company of Ants and Bees, The (1990 Video)

    Producer
    Christopher La Fontaine
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Professor James Gould of Princeton University investigates ant and bee societies, which have existed for more than 50 million years and look destined to last longer than the human race. A beehive is an...

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  2. Aphid-Trapping Potato Plants: A Scientific Project of Dr R W Gibson (1979 Video)

    Director
    Chris C Doncaster
    Producer
    Chris C Doncaster
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Sale (video - BUFVC), Videocassette. VHS. col. 6 min., 1996 sale: £20.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    'Solanum berthaultii’, an insect-resistant wild potato from Bolivia, has abundant sticky-tipped hairs on the foliage to which small insects and mites get stuck. In contrast, the foliage of cultivated...

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  3. Carnivorous Insects (1961 Film)

    Director
    Professor Richard
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A survey of the many carnivorous forms of insect life. With French commentary.*

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  4. Darwin and the Insects of Brazil (1958 Film)

    Producer
    H B D Kettlewell
    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Study of insect adaptation, with reference to the voyage of the ‘Beagle’ in 1831, which took Darwin to Brazil. Produced for the Darwin-Wallace centenary of 1958.

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  5. Cane Toads (1987 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture; Biology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 46 min.

    Tongue-in-cheek study of cane toads, originally imported into Queensland in 1935 from Hawaii to save the sugar crop from destruction by the greyback beetle. The toads bred rapidly and became an agricultural...

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  6. Copycat (1990 Video)

    Director
    Mike Lockey
    Producer
    Bob Thorpe
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 2000 sale: £30.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Scientists and researchers are borrowing ideas from the natural world and adapting them to robotics, aerodynamics and future technology. For example, an insect’s feet, a spider’s web and a fish’s tail...

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  7. When Bee Meets Bee (Bee Behaviour at the Hive Entrance) (1953 Film)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The normal and alerted colony; the procedure at the hive entrance when strangers enter the hive. I

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  8. Tsetse Trap, The (1978 Video)

    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Discusses the impact of the tsetse fly on large areas of Africa, inhibiting agricultural development by preventing beef or diary farming Considers efforts which are being made to combat the pest in Tanzania,...

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  9. Insects: Adaptations for Survival (1978 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Shows how various species of insects have evolved ways of escaping from predators.

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  10. Insects: Food and Feeding Habits (1978 Video)

    Subject
    Biology
    Distribution
    Hire Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 9 min.

    Shows different foods eaten by insects and the ways in which the insects have adapted to the particular foods they eat.

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