Considering their size, insects can whirr, click, bang and whine pretty impressively. In Japan, caged crickets are kept for their songs just as British pet owners might keep a canary. Researchers at the University of York, on the other hand, are developing listening devices to detect larvae chomping through wood. And tiger moths produce clicks so sophisticated they can jam the sonar systems used by bats to find them. Paul Evans conducts this insect chorus.

Something was bugging me about this case. Was it a police sting, or was I caught in a web of deception? I could bee bumbling into a honeytrap. I took another swig from the bluebottle, but one name kept buzzing around my head. Drosophila. My head told me it was time to flea, no way should I let a ladybug me this much. But my heart told me only a louse would quit on a damsel in distress… No, you’re right, it’s really a documentary about forensic entomology. In HD.