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
4:50 Hair Follicle Mite
Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus
7:30 House Dust Mite
Tineola bisselliella
10:40 Common Clothes Moth larva
Tineola bisselliella
11:20 Common Clothes Moth adult
Attagenus pellio
11:30 Fur Beetle
Lepisma saccharina
14:00 Silverfish
Pseudoscorpionida
15:00 Pseudoscorpion
Psocoptera
15:30 Book Louse
Anthrenus museorum
16:00 Museum Beetle
Hylotrupes bajulus
19:00 Old House Borer larva
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
19:40 Black Carpenter Ant
skin
22:00 Skin cells divide
macrophage
25:00 Macrophage
cold
29:00 Cold virus leave mast cells
lymphocytes
30:25 Lymphocytes
Schistosoma
31:40 Snail fever parasite
Plasmodium
33:30 Plasmodium
Coccoidea
35:40 Scale Insect
Aphidoidea
36:00 Aphids
ant
36:40 ants
ladybeetle
37:00 ladybug
mite
37:10 Red Predator Mite
Syrphidae
37:25 Hoverfly larva
Pentatomidae
38:00 Shield Bug
Lucanidae
39:00 Stag Beetle males
ants
41:00 Ants nest in fern leaves
Digitalis
42:20 Digitalis
potato
42:30 Potato plant
plant
42:50 Plant bug
Daphnia
47:00 Water Flea

Index Oct 26, 2011 CC BY 4.0 Peter Chen 2.0