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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.