Bugs to protect Australia

The CSIRO in Canberra has just received 15,000 insects from its laboratory in France.

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00:00Jewel beetles are a nice family.

00:02Yes.

00:04So here you've got all these fruit flies.

00:08This is a big deal because this is a large collection of exotic insects

00:12which we don't have many of in Australia.

00:15We don't have many exotic insects and yet we need these for biosecurity

00:19to help people detect these exotic insects being intercepted.

00:23A biosecurity officer might find one of these at a port or an airport

00:28or just flying in and they will come and compare their specimen

00:35with these specimens which are exotic and other specimens

00:39which are further in the collection which are native

00:42and to determine is this an exotic or is this a native.

00:46It matters because some of the exotics, some of the exotics here even

00:51are carrying plant diseases which will devastate Australian agriculture.

00:58And it could be a very cool video to see the creatures in the world.

01:00I find a great place for them to draw their own飯

01:02and I wonder what it sounds like.

01:04Let's try to do the same thing as I say it.

01:06Let's try to do the same thing.

01:07That's why I'm doing this for the same thing.

01:08But I find the same thing as I think,

01:10I think it is at an adventure in a bunch of things.

01:12So I can go and see how much of the natural insects

01:14and how much of the natural insects comes in in the world.

01:17So I find a very beautiful animal species in animals.