Because robot bugs, that’s why. (h/t Polly Nator, who pointed me to the video for a song I already loved)
Posts under ‘fun’
Big Talk
I can hardly watch television commentary these days without thinking of Mitchell & Webb: If only Robert Webb would address the group selection debate.
Sunday Night Movie: the best educational video ever
I have no idea who made this charming little claymation about Yellow Fever, or why, but it’s pretty awesome:
Party Tick
(crowd image by Paul Underhill, used under a CC-SA-3.0 license; tick image from here)
Mayflies loving life, briefly
A clever, if not entirely accurate, Vodaphone commercial: The cuddling mayflies? Adorable.
Sunday Night Movie: Dung Beetle Blues
Another adorable clip by Minuscule:
Sunday Night Movie: The Wasp Woman (1959)
The trailer to a movie so awful it can’t help but be highly entertaining: Enzymes! Royal Jelly! What could possibly go wrong!? Apart from entomologists making fun of your biological illiteracy half a century later, I mean? I’m sharing this clip because Mock the Movie has singled out The Wasp Woman for some high-class online [...]
Sunday Night Movie: Travels of an Ant
This adorable 1983 animation by Eduard Nazarov was one of the films featured at last night’s Insect Fear Film Festival:
Sunday Night Movie: Sniffer Bees
A recent clip from the British quiz show QI:
Sunday Night Movie: The Beetle
A flashback to last year’s buggiest Super Bowl commercial: I can’t be bothered to choose between the Patriots or the Giants this year, so I’m just going to enjoy my beer and hope for more insects in the advertising.
A personal weblog by Illinois-based biologist and photographer Alex Wild.
