I Contain Multitudes

The Beewolf's Bacterial Birthday

Documentary Jan 25, 2018 9 min PBS Video

Available on PBS Video, Prime Video

S1 E5: Dr. Martin Kaltenpoth invites Ed to burrow into a beewolf lair in his German lab, where he has discovered something really weird about these insects. Ed observes the antibiotic properties of Streptomyces, a microbe that lives happily inside a mama Beewolf’s antenna until the moment arrives to share the bacterial gift with her developing and vulnerable offspring.

Documentary Jan 25, 2018 9 min PBS Video

Information

Released: 2018
Run Time: 9 min

Languages

Subtitles: English (United States) (CC)

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: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.