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

It actually is a Japanese beetle.

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

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

But most of all, the Norden bombsight required the bombardier to make visual contact with the target.

The one on the left is the Namibian beetle pulling water out of fog.

This is the Namibian fog basking beetle, and it's evolved a way of harvesting its own fresh water in a desert.

I mean, a stag beetle it's got two points for jaws, it's got antennae. Can you be that specific in the detail?

And then at the back of the greenhouse, it condenses a lot of that humidity as freshwater in a process that is effectively identical to the beetle.

And this is an x ray picture of a real beetle, and a Swiss watch, back from '88. You look at that what was true then is certainly true today.

Even these of them ye may eat the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

Even these of them ye may eat the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.

So, can you give a hand to Adam Boulanger, Ph.D. student from the MIT Media Lab, and Dan Ellsey. Dan, thanks to TED and to Bombardier Flexjet, Dan is here with us today all the way from Tewksbury. He's a resident at Tewksbury Hospital.

And what he allows people to do is he makes the bombardier take this particular object, visually sight the target, because they're in the Plexiglas cone of the bomber, and then they plug in the altitude of the plane, the speed of the plane, the speed of the wind and the coordinates of the target.