The body of an insect is divided into head, thorax and abdomen.

They've created a kind of insect bot, or bugbot.

A small insect would reverse these priorities.

It's got bumps on the back of its wing covers.

And what we study is the larval stage shown here of this insect.

So this animal has actually had the whole world turned under its feet.

Not a leaf of grass, nor a bush, bug, nothing.

The term imprinting was first used to describe events in the insect Pseudococcus nipae .

The coloration of this insect can vary from light brown and olive to nearly black.

The Island Games were first held on the island in 1985, and again in 2001.

Unfortunately for this innocent little insect, even its scientific name gives it a bad rap.

16,000 kilometers, four generations, mind you, for a two inch long insect. It's quite incredible.

Like all planthoppers, the nymphs of this insect have a small, gear like structure on the base of each of their hind legs.

Moore's law made computing cheap so cheap we can weigh the life of an individual insect and decide thumbs up or thumbs down.

It was nominated in 1990 as the national insect of the United States, but the legislation did not pass.

In insect mode can jump 40 ft. for a distance of .1 miles... kick a hole in 1 4 inch steel.

You could, if you're really smart, you could shine a nonlethal laser on the bug before you zap it, and you could listen to the wing beat frequency and you could measure the size.

So for a small animal dealing with a fairly revolting substance we can actually learn an awful lot from these things doing behaviors that you and I couldn't possibly do.

It will intersect human intelligence in terms of capacity in the 2020s, but that'll be the hardware side of the equation.

Well, I spent a lot of my early career trying to figure out how insect wings generate enough force to keep the flies in the air.

Well, a human, one of your legs works like two legs of a trotting dog, or works like three legs, together as one, of a trotting insect, or four legs as one of a trotting crab.

So in the animal's mid section and its mid gut, the PH is very alkaline. And some of the toxic kind of coumpounds that come in with the biomass, they are actually removed and that's kind of detoxified.

So this animal here has got a brain about the size of a grain of rice, and yet it can do things that you and I couldn't possibly entertain the idea of doing.

And we tackle this problem by building giant, dynamically scaled model robot insects that would flap in giant pools of mineral oil where we could study the aerodynamic forces.

This is far in excess of the previous record holder, the Australian tiger beetle Cicindela eburneola , the fastest insect in the world relative to body size, which has been recorded at or 171 body lengths per second.

So if you take a look inside the animal, inside the hindgut, you'll find it's just chockful of microorganisms. And some of the discoveries that we've made in this system have to do with new kinds of enzymes that have different activities that hadn't been seen before in industry.

It will intersect human intelligence in terms of capacity in the 2020s, but that'll be the hardware side of the equation.

If you think that the mapping of America's made a difference, or landing on the moon, or this other stuff, it's the map of ourselves and the map of every plant and every insect and every bacteria that really makes a difference.

In the measure that you have the code and the measure that you read it and, by the way, the first plant was read two years ago the first human was read two years ago the first insect was read two years ago.