Bertie Beetle

The boy beetle rubs his antenna against the girl beetle.

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

Hey...who's the beetle?

Call that beetle! Call anybody!

because I've turned into a beetle.

It actually is a Japanese beetle.

Watch how often the beetle dances.

Cool pollen, though.

A different pollen signature, if you like, or a different pollen fingerprint.

Statistically, one of you is a beetle.

And look at what the beetle does.

And what does the girl beetle do?

It's heeeeeeere... the pollen!!!

That's a geranium pollen.

Bee pollen, pollen collected from bees, is considered a health food by some people.

The stigma receives pollen and it is on the stigma that the pollen grain germinates.

Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.

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

Tracking the 'Cedar Pollen Front'

They get paid by pollen and nectar, to move that male sperm, the pollen, from flower to flower.

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

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

The Annual Japanese Agony of Cedar Pollen

But pollen forensics can be very subtle.

Perhaps there's more pollen in the city.

On one side, a bike, on the other, a blue, dirty beetle.

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

Jonathan Drori Every pollen grain has a story

So they make nectar as well as pollen.

Pollen is produced by the anthers of flowers.

But anyway, take a look at its pollen.

Now, pollen from plants, which are wind dispersed

The fossilized pollen was not of savanna vegetation.

They build up a static electric charge and the pollen jumps on them and helps spread that pollen from bloom to bloom.

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!

A cedar tree releases clouds of allergy inducing pollen.

And of course, they're made to carry this pollen.

Pollen is a flower's way of making more flowers.

So, that's 20 micrometers across, that pollen grain there.

But not all pollen is quite so simple looking.

Like I said, pollen carries the male sex cells.

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

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.