When my employer (Salzburg Research) called for participation in a course about "presentation techniques in English", registered people like me were asked to prepare a short presentation "on an arbitrary topic". Undecided which topic to choose I went for the proverbial most ridiculous stuff I could find: the "love life of the cockchafers" (also known as "May bugs" - German. "Maikäfer"). Don't take this too serious ;-)

1. Prologue

3. Cockchafers are extremely perdurant (and endurant?)
4 to 4½ h
duration of
the mating
boredom
dozing off
nutrition
falling down
death
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4. The cockchafer is featured in several works of art
Wilhelm Busch:
5th trick of Max
and Moritz
German
children‘s
rhyme
Cockchafer fly...
Your father is at war.
Your mother is in
Pomerania.
Pomerania is burned to
the ground.
Cockchafer fly!
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maikäfer (originally: Wilhelm Busch: “Max und Moritz”)

5. Historical and contemporary plagues
1938: the
Ministry in
Schleswig-
Holstein
paid 5 Cent
per kg
(190.000 kg
of bugs
collected)
2014:
mustard
tested in
the fight
against the
bugs in
Weinviertel
Source: © DPA

6. “The cockchafer (colloquially called May bug,
mitchamador, billy witch, or spang beetle,
particularly in East Anglia) is a European
beetle of the genus Melolontha, in the family
Scarabaeidae.” (en.wikipedia.org)
Cockchafers are extremely perdurant during
their mating and periodically highly effective
in reproduction (Andreas Kieling)
Cockchafers are both boon and bane:
 They inspire the fine arts (Wilhelm Busch) and
contribute to a prosperous development of our
children („Cockchafer fly …“)
 They periodically cause a lot of damage in
agriculture, particularly in vineyards (use of
pesticides and biological weapons)
Andreas Kieling:
„Maikäfer können am
längsten: Dem
Liebesleben der Tiere
auf der Spur“, Malik
Verlag ISBN-13: 978-
3890294186
References:

7. Source:©Fotocommjunity/evle