Why you should meet your insect neighbors | Tanya Latty | TEDxSydney

[music] [applause] 17 years ago, I moved to Australia uh from Canada to study insects. So, I was taking up my first job as a professional insect scientist. When I got here and I'd tell people what I did for a living, they'd often get really excited and start telling what sounded like really fantastical tales about how in Australia, the coming of the Christmas holiday season was heralded [laughter] by the arrival of millions of big iridescent insects called Christmas beetles.Now, I thought this was amazing. ...