And it's the insects that make their home in the canopy of this 200-year-old oak that Max wants to get his hands on. I'm not sure how we'll be reaching them, but it involves 12 large collecting funnels and the help of fly expert Erica McAlister and entomologist Claire Ozanne. Do you get these made up special, can you buy them? The Natural History Museum design. When I first joined the museum this technique was quite new, and they were trying it out all over the tropics, in places like Borneo. Borneo and Sulawesi. I'm told this technique calls for scientific precision. By placing the funnels in a grid formation, this experiment can be replicated in future on any oak tree. If you could hang that one about a foot apart. This alcohol will pickle and preserve their miniature quarry. Yep, lovely.


麦克斯想要研究的就是这棵两百岁的橡树顶部，居住的昆虫们，我不清楚怎样能够到它们。但我们动用了12个大号采集漏斗，还需要两翼昆虫专家艾瑞卡·麦卡利斯特，和昆虫学家克莱尔·奥赞的帮助。 这些漏斗是特制的吗？平时能买到吗？ 这是自然历史博物馆设计的。我刚入馆时，这项技术刚发明。他们在热带地区试用，比如婆罗洲，婆罗洲和苏拉威西岛。他们说，这项技术要求精确的科学计算，把这些漏斗摆成指定的网格状。这个实验也可以应用到其他橡树上，相隔一英尺，挂在那儿，用酒精浸泡保存收集到的昆虫。 太好了。