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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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Insect Plague Latest Menace to US Wheat

Date released

12 Jun 1947

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1699

NoS ID

040574

Story no

3 / 6

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

Oregon wheatfields ravaged by crickets whose natural enemies are insufficient to counteract them. Farmers employ new insecticide in their destruction.

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I Saw Japan Mix by Douglas Hardy - Paramount War Correspondent

Date released

7 Jan 1946

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1550

NoS ID

039849

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 shot list

First British War Correspondent to enter Nagasaki and Sasebo tells his impressions. Resigned to defeat, Japanese live insect-life amidst devastation.

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Pine Beauty (1985 Video)

Producer

Aileen Llewellyn

Subject

Biology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

A rare native moth, the Pine Beauty, suddenly reached pest proportions and caused devastating damage of pine forests in the north of Scotland. The outbreak was linked to the introduction of a new species of...

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Boat Show

Date released

Jun 1964

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

25

NoS ID

327623

Story no

1 / 5

COI synopsis: Visits London’s International Boat Show and discusses a new process for combatting the teredo beetle, a tropical insect which damages boats’ wooden hulls.

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Cabbage Root Fly Bites The Dust

Date released

1969

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

7

NoS ID

350757

Story no

2 / 4

COI synopsis: As insects develop immunity - insecticides have to be made more and more powerful threatening all forms of wildlife. Now experiments with a sterilising agent in food successfully used on the...

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Wheat Bulb Fly

Date released

12 Aug 1957

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

137

NoS ID

120431

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: The Wheat Bulb Fly is an insect pest which does untold damage to Britain’s crops, but at the Rothamsted Experimental Station scientists are fighting this pest with all their resources....

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Biological Control 2 (1986 Video)

Producer

Mike Gunton

Subject

Biology; Environmental science

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Biological control can be one of the most effective of all methods of pest control - self-regulating, safe and very cost-effective - but it has a limited success rate. There is interest in improving the...

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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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Underwater: WASP

Date released

1977

Series name

Living Tomorrow

Issue no

205

NoS ID

325876

Story no

3 / 4

COI synopsis: An offshore submersible which can best be described as a cross between a submarine and a diving suit. The Wasp, as it is called, is fully pressurised and has its own life-support system. Its...

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