I mean, a stag beetle it's got two points for jaws, it's got antennae.

Bertie Beetle

The beetle frustration.

He drew a bead on a stag at bay.

God gave a beetle.

Hey, who's the beetle?

This beetle, unlike this chip bag here, this beetle uses one material, chitin.

He lives alone? So that makes him... a stag knight!

Call that beetle. Call anybody.

because I've turned into a beetle.

It actually is a Japanese beetle.

Watch how often the beetle dances.

Statistically, one of you is a beetle.

And look at what the beetle does.

This is our Khan Academy Spout beetle bot.

Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.

This is a dung beetle. Watch what he's doing.

Why are you dawdling, like a beetle in the dunghill?

Turning rocks over revealed this crab spider grappling with a beetle.

This beetle can detect a forest fire at 80 kilometers away.

To hear that beetle talk... you'd think somethin' was gonna happen to us.

This one is a giant beetle parfait. Hey. I don't remember asking for this.

The one on the left is the Namibian beetle pulling water out of fog.

So let's watch what happens when we put the beetle through the whole test.

At first, she also called him to her with words which she presumably thought were friendly, like Come here for a bit, old dung beetle! or Hey, look at the old dung beetle!

The beetle itself and the ball are probably around about 30 to 35 degrees centigrade, so this is a great big ball of ice cream that this beetle is now transporting across the hot veld.

So all we're interested in here is comparing the temperature of the beetle against the background.

He displaces the beetle, and now we have to see what is going to take place.

So watch this beetle, and there's two things that I would like you to be aware of.

So let's see what happens when we put this beetle to the test with a similar experiment.

Now I clicked on this on purpose, but if I'd somehow gotten here by mistake, it does remind me, for the band, see The Beatles, for the car see Volkswagon Beetle, but I am here for beetle beetles.

And this is an x ray picture of a real beetle, and a Swiss watch, back from '88.

And what's taking place is that the beetle has got a home spot, it goes out on a convoluted path

This is the Namibian fog basking beetle, and it's evolved a way of harvesting its own fresh water in a desert.

Sometimes I think p'raps I'm a bird, or a fox, or a rabbit, or a squirrel, or even a beetle, an' I don't know it.

So this is the first of a series of videos in which we show you how to build a beetle bot without using any solder.

And then at the back of the greenhouse, it condenses a lot of that humidity as freshwater in a process that is effectively identical to the beetle.

Now there's two ways it could be doing that, and we can test that by displacing the beetle to a new position when it's at the foraging site.

What we do is we get a great big polarization filter, pop the beetle underneath it, and the filter is at right angles to the polarization pattern of the sky.

The beetle comes out from underneath the filter and it does a right hand turn, because it comes back under the sky that it was originally orientated to and then reorientates itself back to the direction it was originally going in.

So the ball leaves a little thermal shadow, and the beetle climbs on top of the ball and wipes its face, and all the time it's trying to cool itself down, we think, and avoid the hot sand that it's walking across.

Unless you're prepared to get dung under your fingernails and root through the dung itself, you'll never see 90 percent of the dung beetle species, because they go directly into the dung, straight down below it, and then they shuttle back and forth between the dung at the soil surface and a nest they make underground.

And in this experiment here, what we did was we forced them into a channel, and you can see he wasn't particularly forced into this particular channel, and we gradually displaced the beetle by 180 degrees until this individual ends up going in exactly the opposite direction that it wanted to go in, in the first place.