The Love Bugs | movie | 2019 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Over the course of 60 years Charlie and Lois O'Brien traveled to more than 67 countries and quietly amassed the world’ | dG1fZ0JyWnFCVUZEWE0

Transcript

00:00This is Jim Enns and the other is Jim Mattis.

00:03They're the two most beautiful I have.

00:05Oh, I didn't think that was the most beautiful.

00:07Yeah, well, you didn't look at it under a scope.

00:11My name is Charles O'Brien.

00:12I'm a retired professor of entomology

00:15and have been studying weevils for 60 years.

00:19And I am Lois O'Brien, Charlie's wife,

00:21and I've been studying planthoppers for almost that long.

00:27We estimate that we have a million and a quarter

00:29dead insects mounted and labeled.

00:33When you ask questions particularly about our love for each other,

00:36it's just beyond me to analyze it and explain it.

00:39And now we're going collecting.

00:41We're scientists. We're not behaviorists.

00:43Hit them.

00:45We've collected in more than 70 countries

00:48and all of the continents.

00:51The estimate of our collection is $10 million.

00:55We think of it in terms of scientific value.

00:59Lois is one of the top people in the field,

01:02and I'm mostly an armchair taxonomist

01:05because of the balance problem associated with Parkinson's.

01:10To look out and know all of the weevils that are out there

01:13that I would love to be able to collect.

01:16Charlie has so much knowledge.

01:18He could be sharing it with people.

01:20We want the collection to be a permanent research collection.

01:24In a way, our work is immortal.

01:27laughs

01:30Oh dear.