Benjamin Thompson
speaker
746 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Sep
Benjamin Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Some are little moths and butterflies and tiny wasps and bees, cockroaches.
Mm.
And this is where it kicks in.
Some of these vary from a half a millimeter long to giant predatory crickets that measure more than ten centimeters long.
That's a pretty big cricket.
That's a big cricket, yeah.
And apparently the most abundant insects collected belong to a family of flies called Sicedomyidae, which are commonly known as gorgeous.
Now these are only maybe a couple of millimeters long, and over the past two hundred and fifty years, scientists have described nearly seven thousand different species of this worldwide.
And in this work they've already found ten thousand species from a single trap.
Yeah, and there's this wonderful quote from Amarin here, in which he says, People tend to picture the rainforest as a minecraft cube, green and uniform, but in reality it's far more complex than that.
As we begin to understand insect guilds, how they live, and the heights of the forest they inhabit, the forest becomes an incredibly interesting and rich environment.
When a patch of forest is cut down, thousands of species are affected.
Right.
I mean this is a sentence that we need to explore.
Orcas sometimes folks still call them killer whales, I guess, but very intelligent creatures and this is as you say what a new behaviour unknown to science.
Ha and I'm not sure the right word to describe what happens to this sunfish then.
You can't say it was vaporised because of course it's underwater.
So I guess chum what's that?
That's that kind of mashed up fish that's used as bait.
Do they turn it into chum, Nick?
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