Nature's Microworlds - Season 3

Nature's Microworlds - Season 3

Season 3

Insect Worlds

Steve Backshall explores the world of insects and their close relatives, the arachnids and crustaceans, in order to find out more about their habits and secrets.
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Episodes3
DatesAug 1, 2014 - Aug 15, 2014
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Episodes

Insect Specials - Them and Us
Season 3Episode 130 min

Insect Specials - Them and Us

Steve Backshall explores the connections and relationship that we have with insects and other arthropods. In Kenya, huge armies of driver ants give houses a five-star clean-up, and in China, we discover how silkworm caterpillars have shaped our culture and distribution. While locusts devastate crops in Africa, bees and beetles across the world provide a key link in our food chains. Many of us perceive these animals merely as creepy crawlies and nothing more than a nuisance, but as Steve reveals, we couldn't live without them.
Aug 1, 2014
Insect Specials - Making Worlds
Season 3Episode 230 min

Insect Specials - Making Worlds

Steve Backshall reveals the incredible influence that insects and their close relatives have on Earth's many ecosystems. In the grasslands of South America, the landscape has been created almost solely by one team of insects - grass-cutter ants. Across the world's oceans one tiny creature plays such a key role that, without it, the largest animal on our planet, the blue whale, could not exist. And in East Africa the savannah would quickly be swamped in dung were it not for the activities of a certain beetle. Yet the greatest influence of all comes from a group of insects that have ultimately changed the colour and diversity of our planet.
Aug 8, 2014
Insect Specials - The Secret to Their Success
Season 3Episode 330 min

Insect Specials - The Secret to Their Success

Steve Backshall examines why insects are so abundant and successful. In Yellowstone, he reveals how teamwork allows a colony of bees to scare off a bear.
Aug 15, 2014

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