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>> on may 1st 1952, the may natural historym) w museum doors. the may family is is finally home, only to lose their master bug collector when he dies in 1956 >> we probably had somewhere in the neighborhood of 1 is 00,000d"lm specimens and more or less, my great grandfather's legacy is that he is the essentially all) >> the future of this strange inheritance is in the hands of john may, who has even bigger plans for it. >> those plans include the biggest name in themeuwoparks. >> walt disney wanted to buy the collection. >> that's next. >> but first ourt strangev/flñ inheritance quiz question...

Thank you for watching. >> send me an e-mail or go to our web site coming up next is "strange inheritance." thank you for joining us. announcer: 100,000 creepy crawlers. >> spiders that will cover your whole face. announcer: all collected from the far reaches of the world. talk about a bug's life. >> old is he wanted to buy the collection. announcer: there is a bigger story behind this request. >> that was a bigger eye-opening experience than the film. ♪ ♪ ♪ of. jamie: i am jamie colby, right

Of the body disappear. so there was some reason for the body to be discovered. >> the body had three large moles and a scar on the abdomen. blue jeans and a belt with a zodiac buckle were the only other keys to the victim's identity. at the autopsy, the pathologist found evidence of insect activity, which was sent to a forensic entomologist for analysis. this is an expert in the study of insects. he identified the eggs as those of the bluebottle fly and the back blowfly. both common in areas of the united states. both the weather conditions and the stage of the egg and larvae development allow...

>> there appears to be growing concerns among scientists that there is a possibility of dangerous, long-range side effects from the widespread use of ddt and other pesticides. have you considered asking the public health service to take a closer look at this? >> yes, and i know that they already are. i think particularly since this conference broke, but they can examining the matter. >> rachel carson wrote this book about pesticides called "silent spring" in 1962, and it talked about the long-term impacts, the concept of latency and bioaccumulation, which were all new terms. farm animals were ...

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