NOVA: The Unknown World (2005)

Index
Peter's DVD rating: 3 stars
4:50 Hair Follicle Mite lives in scalp and eyelashes - have a taste for mascara 6:00We shed 1.5 million skin flakes every hour, makes up 90% of dust on floor 7:30 House Dust Mite eats skin flake
10:40 Common Clothes Moth larva is fond of wool and cotton, mature into 11:20 Common Clothes Moth adult 11:30 Fur Beetle eats fur with jaws between eyes
14:00 Silverfish prefer old yellow paper, break down cellulose 15:00 Pseudoscorpion lives on diet of 15:30 Book Louse
16:00 Museum Beetle eats one hair at a time, also likes dried insects; is the scourge of every curator 19:00 Old House Borer larva eats holes in wood 19:40 Black Carpenter Ant tunnels through wood to make nest
22:00 Skin cells divide to form new layer over scab 22:40100,000 billion bacteria in human body, lpay essential role in digestion in intestines 23:30Other bacteria attack teeth, cuasing cavities and plague
25:00 Macrophage is big eater (including asbestos fiber); make up pus when dead 29:00 Cold virus leave mast cells 30:25 Lymphocytes bombard enemy with antibodies
31:00HIV virus infects lymphocytes 31:40 Snail fever parasite need snail intermediate host, sucks our blood cells 33:00Female attached to larger male; eggs leave in urine
33:30 Plasmodium is malaria parasite transmitted by mosquito 35:40 Scale Insect 36:00 Aphids herded by
36:40 ants 37:00preyed by ladybug 37:10 Red Predator Mite hitches a ride
37:25 Hoverfly larva sucks aphid, leaving empty shell 38:00 Shield Bug attacks caterpillar 39:00 Stag Beetle males battle
41:00 Ants nest in fern leaves 42:25Venus Flytrap 42:20 Digitalis sap has glue that traps aphids
42:30 Potato plant has long fibers to prevent aphid from reaching juice 42:50 Plant bug has special claws to walk across leaf 47:00 Water Flea give live birth
58:20Dove decays      
Demodex_folliculorum.jpg
4:50 Hair Follicle Mite
Dermatophagoides_pteronyssinus.jpg
7:30 House Dust Mite
Tineola_bisselliella-larva.jpg
10:40 Common Clothes Moth larva
Tineola_bisselliella.jpg
11:20 Common Clothes Moth adult
Attagenus_pellio.jpg
11:30 Fur Beetle
Lepisma_saccharina.jpg
14:00 Silverfish
Pseudoscorpionida.jpg
15:00 Pseudoscorpion
Psocoptera.jpg
15:30 Book Louse
Anthrenus_museorum.jpg
16:00 Museum Beetle
Hylotrupes_bajulus-larva.jpg
19:00 Old House Borer larva
Camponotus_pennsylvanicus.jpg
19:40 Black Carpenter Ant
skin-cells.JPG
22:00 Skin cells divide
macrophage.JPG
25:00 Macrophage
cold-virus.JPG
29:00 Cold virus leave mast cells
lymphocytes.JPG
30:25 Lymphocytes
Schistosoma.jpg
31:40 Snail fever parasite
Plasmodium.jpg
33:30 Plasmodium
Coccoidea.jpg
35:40 Scale Insect
Aphidoidea.jpg
36:00 Aphids
ant-aphids.JPG
36:40 ants
ladybeetle-aphids.JPG
37:00 ladybug
mite.JPG
37:10 Red Predator Mite
Syrphidae-larva.jpg
37:25 Hoverfly larva
Pentatomidae.jpg
38:00 Shield Bug
Lucanidae-males.jpg
39:00 Stag Beetle males
ants-fern.JPG
41:00 Ants nest in fern leaves
Digitalis.JPG
42:20 Digitalis
potato.JPG
42:30 Potato plant
plant-bug.JPG
42:50 Plant bug
Daphnia.jpg
47:00 Water Flea
Index Oct 26, 2011 copyleft Peter Chen